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Something else. I note under System
Properties/Advanced/User Profiles/Settings the only profile listed is
DAVIDNEW\Owner. Wonderful. I tried DAVIDNEW previously, but
deleted it (or thought I did) when it didn't help. It also
appears on a registry find.
Don't know if this helps.
Dave
Larry -
Look at Windows KB 312131 -
I have SP2, but I'm going to pursue the SP thing
a little further. I also have quite a few restore points
:<)
Dave
Hi Dave,
Sorry for the delay in replying--I am buried in
crashed servers belonging to customers at the moment.
I'll get back to you soon, hopefully by
tomorrow night.
The plot thickens.
When I boot in Safe Mode, the User screen
comes up OK, defaulted to Owner. If I touch any key, or try to move
the mouse, the screen freezes. So,
back to normal mode.
Making some changes in my Favorites file
for tracking purposes, I note that when I am in David, my changes (as
shown in Explorer) are actually appearing in Owner.
Spent some time in the Registry editor.
Noted the following (but I'm not about to change anything on my
own):
1) David-1, Owner and DavidNew (one of
my earlier attempts at something) appear numerous places, although all
technically deleted.
2) One Owner item in HKey_Users I
though was interesting - (Login User Name) - Owner
3) David/Owner and Owner/David - no
entries.
I believe the operating system is really
using Owner, even when I log in as David. Very interesting.
This sort of thing is my biggest complain with XP - seems like this stuff
never ends.
What to do now?
And thanks for hanging in there with
me.
Dave
Try deleting the owner account in Safe
mode.
Snip>
>Does owner show up as a user account
when booting to safe mode?
Yes
>Also, when browsing to the documents
and settings folder do both David and owner have folders?
Yes
On reboot, it defaulted to David, but Owner still doesn't show up
in CP/Users, still does in Explorer.
Dave
Does owner show up as a user account
when booting to safe mode?
Also, when browsing to the documents
and settings folder do both David and owner have
folders?
Good progress Larry -
Got through your step 5 OK.
David profile contains all my files correctly. (Whew)
Re: Step 6 - deleting Owner
account;
1) 'Owner' does
show up in CP/Users. Only David (Computer Administrator) and
Guest (Guest account is off)
2) Using Explorer,
get the error message "Owner is Windows system file and is
required for Windows to run properly. It cannot be
deleted."
Step 6 OK - all files OK
Step 7 - Not using passwords - at
least not yet.
Any further thoughts on getting rid
of Owner??
THx much
Dave
Sounds like this is more of a mess
than expected.
The computer name is
David--that needs to be changed if you are going to have a user
account named David.
Step 1- For safety's sake, remove
the passwords from all accounts before logging off.
Step 2-delete the David-1 account
you just created.
Step 3-rename the computer david1
(or anything other than David)
Step 4-reboot the computer and log
in as David
Step 5-verify all your personal
files are there in the David profile
Step 6-delete the owner
account
Step 7-reboot the pc and log in as
David
Step 8-reset the password on your
David account
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.
Snip
> 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
>
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
>
>
> --
> Larry Samuels Associate Expert
>
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> Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server
2003 at
> http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
> Expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> "Dave" <djbahb@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 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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