Not too sensitive at 69 years <G>. But did follow your instructions as I
understood true names and found xp with Administrator, All Users, Default
User and Owner while Vista had Public and Vista choices.. So I decided to
do <It is common for users to rename the generic user account they started
out
with (i.e., rename Computer Administrator to Dick) instead of creating a
new user account as they should.> I guess I thought this was an option not
realizing you told me renaming an account didn't work in some previous
email.
Anyway, being retired with only time and pride available, the $100+ to come
out seems expensive.
I guess my last querry:
Any feelings on letting it be done remotely (considerably cheaper
supposedly)??
Thanks, Dick
"Malke" <malke@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> dick wrote:
> Quote:
>> I changed both computers "Administrator" to "Dick". Do I still need to
>> add
>> xp and vista users to the other?? If so, exactly what do I type that
>> makes
>> it different from the two "Dicks"??
>
> Either you are not understanding me or I'm not understanding you, or a
> combination of both.
>
> I asked you to type what users you see in C:\Users on Vista and
> C:\Documents
> and Settings on XP. You didn't do this.
>
> What do you mean you "changed both computers [sic] Administrator to Dick"?
> How? By just renaming the accounts in Control Panel>User Accounts? I
> already told you simply renaming an account doesn't work.
>
> I'm truly not saying this to hurt your feelings but I think from a
> practical, more efficient standpoint you would really be better served to
> have a competent local computer tech come on-site and set you up (not from
> a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place). Setting up file/printer
> sharing between two computers takes approximately 5 minutes (not counting
> installing printer drivers) and someone who can have hands-on the machine
> is going to get you going very quickly. When you watch him/her, the
> concepts will become immediately apparent.
>
> I'm sorry that I haven't been able to help you.
>
> Malke
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