St. Phatty
Active member
I want to alter my main user-name in Windows 7 - from within the account.
Does anybody know if you can do that ?
The alternative is spending a day migrating to a new desktop with the desired username.
I tried it. What happens so far is, the username changes when you are in the main Windows login window with system administrator, main username, etc.
You can go into Control Panel and change the username, from within a session.
BUT - after logging out & logging back in - when I create a file in Paint and look at the permissions, the username is the original username, not the new username.
Anyway, if anybody knows how to make sure that a username change, implemented from within the user account, flows through or ripples down, whatever term you want to use, so it's like you set it up originally with that username.
Does anybody know if you can do that ?
The alternative is spending a day migrating to a new desktop with the desired username.
I tried it. What happens so far is, the username changes when you are in the main Windows login window with system administrator, main username, etc.
You can go into Control Panel and change the username, from within a session.
BUT - after logging out & logging back in - when I create a file in Paint and look at the permissions, the username is the original username, not the new username.
Anyway, if anybody knows how to make sure that a username change, implemented from within the user account, flows through or ripples down, whatever term you want to use, so it's like you set it up originally with that username.