On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
If they had created c:\My Documents & had changed the paths
for the various name spaces such as desktop, favorites &
temps etc. XP still would create a c:\documents and
settings\newuser folder unless the newuser acct was NOT
created brand spanking new.
I agree that a c:\documents and settings\newuser folder would
be created. However it was NOT. Which would normally mean the
newuser account was NOT created brand spanking new, but is a
RENAMED account.
So are the olduser's files in the newuser's folder after the
renaming, editing or changing? ...
Nope... <VBG> the newusers files are in mixed in with the
olduser files in the olduser folder.
... I'm surprised that MSFT allows user names to be renamed
just to prevent situations such as this from arising. You'll
notice that the only place that renaming of users is on a
context menu is in lusrmgr.msc when one right clicks on a
users name. Hmmm, that's interesting, so I'd say that MSFT
really doesn't want the user names to be edited but YMMV.
Actually, depending on the logon method used, it's easy. Just
go into the Control Panel and start the User Accounts applet.
Then click on an account and one of the options is "Change my
name". This actually changes the 'screen name' when using the
Welcome Screen logon style, so folks believe they are logged on
as the screen name (newuser) when they are actually logged on
using olduser as the user name. The other way to change it is
the way you describe, which will change the user name used in
the classic logon screen. But either way, the folder remains
the same: "c:\documents and settings\olduser". But yeah, I
would have to agree, MSFT really doesn't want the user names to
be edited. And I don't recommend it to our county offices, but
do they listen? :)
Have you not experimented with renaming accounts? <VBG> I have
plenty of practice because that's what some of our users do
before we get there to properly transfer a system from one user
to another. And they are left scratching their heads when they
can't find where things are going. <VBG> So I had to experiment
to see what was happening "behind the scenes". In a way I was
surprised when a renamed account did *NOT* result in a renamed
folder also.
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