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Changing Location of My Documents/Music/etc. in Windows XP

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Curt:
Oh dear; do I really have to remember stuff like that (it really is hard to remember stuff you don't understand)?! I just took the PC into use, didn't I - I will have to figure out what to answer! First: I live alone so I don't log in - does anyone do that? I guess I have auto-logon. The name on top of Start is Curt, and in "My Computer" the not-shared folder is  "My Documents (Curt)" - and I didn't put the "(Curt)" there, Windows must have done that. But in Sys-Info it says: Username: DIT-4A811B5B42A\karar

Did I answer the question that I don't know how to answer??
 :tellme:

mitzevo:
Ok I'm going to have to say.. good point Curt, it's not a small change.. but tinjaw is right.. if the programs follow some guide lines, they should retrieve the correct path to the users' folders, and not use any hardcode paths at all..

And as for your annoying username problem, you can either change the display of it (logon, start menu) via the User management in Control Panel. This doesn't change the \Documents and Settings\Username to the new name, it merely changes a few locations that displays the username.. If you're fine with this, then do that..

Other wise if you want to completely remove the username, just create a new user (which will be your new account), copy all the \Documents and Settings\OldUserName to your .\NewUserName.. After you have copied all your old username settings to your new username.. You can assign admin (well you should have done that when you created the new account) priv's to your new account.. Then delete the old username..  :D

tinjaw: I know about TweakUI XP :P Do I need to repeat my self.. Nice screen shot though :D

Curt:
... to completely remove the username, just create a new user (which will be your new account), copy all the \Documents and Settings\OldUserName to your .\NewUserName.. After you have copied all your old username settings to your new username.. You can assign admin (well you should have done that when you created the new account) priv's to your new account.. Then delete the old username..  -mitzevo (July 15, 2007, 12:00 PM)
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 :'(    :tellme:   :-[ 


* create a new user/account) and assign admin priv's to your new account

* copy all the \Documents and Settings\OldUserName (= \karar)

* paste into your ..\NewUserName..

* delete the old username..

- is that  it?  :tellme:

What about the many GB allocated to karar's System Recovery?

Deozaan:
This is perhaps only slightly related to topic now that Curt's asked about changing his account name.

I recently formatted and reinstalled XP. Now I only have one account on this machine, no guest account, and Administrator never shows up unless I boot into safe mode (as per usual), but for some reason it always makes me click my account to login instead of just logging me in to the only account on the system automatically.

Oh, and the account is NOT password protected.

I can never understand how it works. Usually my XP computers with just one account automatically load up to the desktop. Sometimes I'll change a setting in User Accounts and it will show the login screen when I boot up, but it seems to go away and just login automatically again after some time or some thing.

Has anyone noticed a pattern to this or does anyone know how to manually tell it to just automatically log in to the account?

mitzevo:
Curt:
So what you have right now is: \Documents and Settings\karar
Create a new user account, log into it atleast once, logout then log into the karar account or account with admin rights.

You should now have two usernames in the \Documents and settings folder:
\Documents and Settings\karar & \Documents and Settings\Curt (or what ever you chose for your new account)

Copy what you need out of the "karar" folder like start menu, app data, favorites, etc to your "Curt" folder - This step might be a little hard, you have to spend some time going through the folders and seeing what you need to keep every thing set up.

Once you have tried to duplicate the karar settings into the new username ("Curt) you can delete the user "karar", inturn deleting the folder \Documents and Settings\karar..

Deozaan: Some times I get this too! Some times I've found when having only one user account on XP it logs in automatically (you don't have to click your username to login) and other times you have to click the username to login, even without a password.. It must be some config'able setting some where to turn the welcome screen off.

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