Re: Deleting Multiple Users

Larry - Thank you.
 
Ok, I've jumped through quite a lot of hoops lately.  Few more won't hurt.   BTW, did a restore point before I got into this.
 
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> 1>rename the David account back to Owner
Ok, did that -
 
> 2>create an account named David with matching permissions
Won't let me - "Can't use same name as computer" (Brilliant logic, sounds like vintage Bill Gates) so I changed it to David-1 (may have been a mistake)
 
> 3>copy your documents, favorites, etc to the David account
Paradoxically, correct docs/folders are already in David.  Owner and David-1 are basically empty - default folders, etc., only
 
> 4>log off, then log back on as David
Got smart (?) and stopped before going this far.  Sort of unnerving that when you log off to change users, you have to volunteer the user name. 

> 5>delete the owner account
Didn't get this far -
 
Any thoughts??
Dave

 
"Larry Samuels" <larry@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eb7AI6yzFHA.736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
> Hi Dave,
>
> It sounds like you (or someone setting up the pc) changed the name of the
> owner account created during the initial install to David instead of
> creating an account named David. The pc will always see that account as
> owner even though you log in as David due to the unique id created during
> account creation.
>
> This can cause havoc with password protected network shares. You will have
> to access those shares as owner since that is the ID the pc is broadcasting
> to the network.
>
> There is an easy way out though it requires jumping through a few hoops.
> 1>rename the David account back to Owner
> 2>create an account named David with matching permissions
> 3>copy your documents, favorites, etc to the David account
> 4>log off, then log back on as David
> 5>delete the owner account
>
>
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> "Dave" <djbahb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ez0JJJyzFHA.2076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
>>I have the Home version
>> in CP?Users, only two appear, David (me) and Guest.  When I booted this
>> morning, it came up Owner.  Somewhere, I noted the user name came up as
>> david/owner.  Not sure how that got there - could that be a problem?
>>
>> Dave
>
>

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