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Changing "Name" in C\Users\"Name"

by Jan 22, 2012 3:41AM PST

Dear Forum,
I've decided to give my older laptop to a close family member. Since this computer was no longer used for business, no sensitive data is on the hard drive. The OS was upgraded to Win7 Home Premium from WinXP Pro SP3. My User Name was created and is still visible in C\Users, and I would like to change it to another entry. When this is attempted under User Accounts, Users\"My User Name"\"New User Name" is the result. Is there any way of achieving Users\"New User Name" without a clean install? I dread this option, since I would have to reinstall WinXP Pro then Win7 Premium Upgrade.
Thanks for your assistance. This is my first post to Windows 7 Forum.

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Re: users
by Forum moderator Jan 22, 2012 3:48AM PST

I'd make a new user (be sure it's an administrator), then delete the old one.

It's recommended to have a spare admin account, just in case you only have one and it gets corrupted. Leave that spare account as it is, but be sure to delete the contents of My Documents and such that you don't want to survive. Same for the All Users (public) data.

Kees

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Changing "Name" in C\Users\"Name" - Answer
by lemaech56 Jan 22, 2012 10:58AM PST

Kess,

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