User name not the same as logon name?

Hi everyone, I'm having some sharing issues, which I think could b
related to the below

I logon to Vista ultimate x64 with the username: Charles it's also go
a password

However, when I look under c:\users\ there is no Charles folder, bu
rather all my documents etc etc are in c:\users\user\ ?!

When I open the task manager and click on the last tab called users, i
shows "user" logged in, and not "charles"

Weird, thing is on the start menu up the top it has the correct nam
"Charles". What's happening here? I've tried googling it, and not muc
has come up. Is there a difference between profile name and login name
IE I'm loggin in as Charles, but my profile name is "user"

In the control panel, under "user accounts", there is only one user
Charles, who is administrator and password protected. In that contro
panel, if I click on advanced user profile properties, it shows the onl
profile as COMPUTERNAME\User, and when I select it, the COPY TO..
button is greyed out

ANYWAY, how can I rename my profile to say CHARLES instead of USER? A
I said above, the COPY TO... button is greyed out, so I can't even cop
it to a new profile

Why is there this difference?!?!? Thanks in advance

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Eyeonb

Eyeonb;1143523 Wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm having some sharing issues, which I think could b
> related to the below
>
> I logon to Vista ultimate x64 with the username: Charles it's also go
> a password
>
> However, when I look under c:\users\ there is no Charles folder, bu
> rather all my documents etc etc are in c:\users\user\ ?!
>
> When I open the task manager and click on the last tab called users, i
> shows "user" logged in, and not "charles"
>
> Weird, thing is on the start menu up the top it has the correct nam
> "Charles". What's happening here? I've tried googling it, and not muc
> has come up. Is there a difference between profile name and login name
> IE I'm loggin in as Charles, but my profile name is "user"
>
> In the control panel, under "user accounts", there is only one user
> Charles, who is administrator and password protected. In that contro
> panel, if I click on advanced user profile properties, it shows the onl
> profile as COMPUTERNAME\User, and when I select it, the COPY TO..
> button is greyed out
>
> ANYWAY, how can I rename my profile to say CHARLES instead of USER? A
> I said above, the COPY TO... button is greyed out, so I can't even cop
> it to a new profile
>
> Why is there this difference?!?!? Thanks in advance

First look my attached image
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http://www.vistax64.com/attachment.p...1&d=1253794118

There are "name" and "Full Name".The truly user name identified b
system is "name","Full Name" is without any meaning you can even don'
have "Full name",When you login to system if account have any "Ful
name" it is displayed on logon screen instead your own name.The same i
with Control Panel >>User Accounts.In* lusrmgr.msc* or in *control
*userpasswords2* you
can see both "Name" and "Full Name".Commands "net user" or "ne
localgroup" only shows "name"

For yo

your "Name" :Use
your "Full Name" :Charle

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Flavius

That makes sense now! So ... if using lusrmgr.msc, I right click th
username and select rename, and change "Name" from User to Charles, wil
that automatically rename c:\users\user to c:\users\Charles, or is i
going to cause problems, and deletions of all my docs

Any way of backing it up first before trying if we're unsure

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Eyeonb

Eyeonb;1143545 Wrote:
> That makes sense now! So ... if using lusrmgr.msc, I right click the
> username and select rename, and change "Name" from User to Charles, will
> that automatically rename c:\users\user to c:\users\Charles, or is it
> going to cause problems, and deletions of all my docs?
>
> Any way of backing it up first before trying if we're unsure?
No.Still "User" account profile will be stored in C:\Users\User even if
the "Name" will be now "Charles".System allow this kind of things.Really
do you disturb it?I suggest leave it.Well there is ability to rename
user profile folder too...but is that really worth to do :shock:?
When you change account "Name"...
1.First you have to login into another admin account -if you don't
another admin account you have to create it before.
2.Find folder C:\Users\User and rename it to C:\Users\Charles
3.Open regedit find key *HKEY_LOCALE_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList* navigate to subkey which adressed to
"User" account and correct path to user profile folder.See image.
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http://www.vistax64.com/attachment.p...&d=1253795950]

As you can see you have to edit path in "ProfileImagePath"
After it you will have account name "Charles" with profile
C:\Users\Charles


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Flavius

Flavius;1143566 Wrote:
> > Eyeonb;1143545 Wrote:
> > That makes sense now! So ... if using lusrmgr.msc, I right click th
> > username and select rename, and change "Name" from User to Charles, wil
> > that automatically rename c:\users\user to c:\users\Charles, or is i
> > going to cause problems, and deletions of all my docs
> >
> > Any way of backing it up first before trying if we're unsure?> >
> No.Still "User" account profile will be stored in C:\Users\User eve
> if the "Name" will be now "Charles".System allow this kind o
> things.Really do you disturb it?I suggest leave it.Well there i
> ability to rename user profile folder too...but is that really wort
> to do :shock:
>

Why do I want to do it? I need to change the name:User to show Charles
because I'm having file sharing problems because the share doesn't hav
access privelages for the user: "User" only for "charles", however I'
worried that if I change the name from "user" to "charles" that I'l
lose all my settings, documents etc etc

So if Vista is half smart, and after simply changing the name fro
"user" to "charles" it continues along with no hiccups, no deletions, n
changes, then great, I'll do that. But I should probably have someway o
backing all of that up first :huh

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Eyeonb

Eyeonb;1144287 Wrote:
> But I should probably have someway of backing all of that up first :huh
Your private data won't be changed.Althogh it would be well to creat
checkpoint in System Restore before this operatio
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...int-create.htm

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Flavius