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Old 04-09-2007   #2 (permalink)
jabulani-jonny


 
 

Re: Change Administrator folder association?



"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> That Users\Administrator folder is there because there is a hidden
> Administrator account associated with it.
> What your doing here is corrupting this built-in administrator account that
> is used for emergency recovery.
>
> If you try to change the name of your own accounts user folders, you will
> also corrupt those accounts. There are hundreds of registry keys that
> reference those folders with their original names.
>
> You need to try and undo what you have already changed or use System Restore
> to go back to a point before you started making these changes.
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> Doh. Leave it to me to do something boneheaded. I figured I might be doing something like that after reading about the hidden administrator account in a couple of other forums. I'll restore and leave it at that. Thx for the help!

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