This little tidbit just saved me a lot of trouble. I had configured two new laptops with custom usernames, installing everything as that user, etc. Then they tell me, "Oh, those are for <other users>."
Nice.
I tried renaming the account and changing the password, but the account ID was still the old one, the name was only changed in a cosmetic way. Anywhere that you saw permissions you would see:
NewName (computername/oldname)
Which was getting kinda annoying.
So here is what I found. I tried it and it works perfectly!
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"Rather than renaming a user account that's been in use for some time, try this: Create a new user profile with the proper name, migrate the old profile into the new one and delete the old one after everything is settled. Copying a user's profile data in Windows XP can be done by right-clicking on My Computer | Properties, then Advanced | User Profiles | Settings and using the Copy To function to select a target profile folder."
"Note that you cannot copy the profile for the currently logged-in user. You should also create the target user and log in as that user before copying in the old profile data. " |
