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Changing Vista's owner
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Sakabadger
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Old Sep 22, 2007, 02:03 AM Local time: Sep 22, 2007, 12:03 AM #1 of 4
Changing Vista's owner

I received my dad's laptop the other day, and it has Vista installed on it. Naturally, when we were doing the initial setup a few months ago the name was set to my dad's name. Now I want to change it to mine.

I've already changed the account name (the administrator one) to mine, which I assumed would've been enough.

I notice that whenever I browse to something like C:/Documents and Settings/User it sometimes uses my dad's name instead of the name I set for the profile. If I go do some other stuff or reboot, then it'll start showing up as my name (sometimes). It goes back and forth like this and I have no clue how to fix it. It's bothersome because, on occasion, I have no clue if I'm putting stuff in the right folders or whatever.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

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Old Sep 22, 2007, 08:56 AM Local time: Sep 22, 2007, 07:56 AM #2 of 4
Why don't you just create a new admin level user for yourself?

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Old Sep 22, 2007, 02:08 PM Local time: Sep 22, 2007, 12:08 PM #3 of 4
Because I don't want two accounts and that doesn't really solve the problem, just sidestep it.

Unless you're saying there's no fix, in which case I guess I'm resigned to it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
Old Sep 22, 2007, 09:20 PM #4 of 4
Saka, go to the start menu, right click on My Computer, click properties, click Advanced system settings, under user profiles click settings, delete the profiles you no longer wish to have like your dad's. You must have more than one profile on the machine in order to do this. Also, be sure to remove anything you wish to keep from profiles you wish to delete's my documents, my music, my pictures, desktop, etc. because they will be deleted if you don't move them or copy them or something (it may even have something to do with who owns those documents as well, not sure). Anyway, whoever's profile is by their lonesome should become the main profile. Hope that helps. =)

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