Re: User Account
From: Gary (nospam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/04
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:26:24 -0400
Actually, unless you have renamed the Administrator account to "Owner" you
should have one - although it won't show as an option on the welcome screen.
When you start your system and it automatically logs in as user, do the
following:
1. Click "Start", "Log Off", and then "Log Off" again at the confirmation
screen.
2. This should take you to the Welcome screen which will just have the one
user listed.
3. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice and you should get a screen asking you for a
username and password.
4. Type "Administrator" for the username and enter the password (it's
probably a blank password if you haven't set it, so you could just leave it
blank).
5. Click "Ok" or "login".
The reason you have to log in as another user before following the steps
outlined in the previous post is that Windows will not let you rename the
"Owner" folder in Windows Explorer while you're logged in as that user.
Good luck!
"Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4B61FBC-B210-4374-9062-330DC744DAD8@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Gary
>
> As there are no other user/administrator accounts set up other than the
> default 'Owner' account (I don't log in at the moment, just boot up), do I
> still need to create another administrator account when 'Owner' is already
> an
> administrator account?
>
>
>
>
> "Gary" wrote:
>
>> 1. You'll need to log in as another user (like administrator).
>> 2. Click Start, Run, and type "regedit", click ok. (caution: Be very
>> careful editing the registry. It would be a good idea to make a backup
>> of
>> the registry before making any changes.)
>> 3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
>> 4. Expand the ProfileList key to find the SID of the "Owner" user (you
>> can
>> find this by highlighting each of the SIDs under the ProfileList key and
>> looking at the ProfileImagePath entry on the right.
>> 5. When you find the correct SID, change the "ProfileImagePath" entry to
>> your desired folder name (ex: %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Rob.
>> 6. Exit out of the Registry Editor and open Windows Explorer.
>> 7. Navigate to the Documents and Settings\owner folder.
>> 8. Right-click this folder name and choose "Rename" and type "Rob".
>> 9. Log off and log back in as Rob and all should be well.
>>
>>
>> "Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CF717366-4AB7-457C-8419-4FB17B4DC253@microsoft.com...
>> > I've set up a new PC for a friend and chose not to setup user accounts.
>> > The
>> > administrator account was consequently given the default name of
>> > 'Owner'
>> > and
>> > a folder called 'Owner' was automatically created under 'Documents and
>> > Settings'.
>> >
>> > I have since gone into Control Panel / User Accounts and renamed the
>> > friend
>> > from 'Owner' to 'Rob' but the folder under 'Documents and Settings' has
>> > stayed with the name 'Owner'. This means that instead of seeing the
>> > 'My
>> > Documents' folder personalised in Windows Explorer as 'Rob's
>> > Documents',
>> > it
>> > shows up as 'Owner's Documents' and cannot be renamed manually.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to replace the name 'Owner' with the name 'Rob'?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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