Change C:\Users\*****

Hello Vistax64, my name is Lee. My laptop is a Sony VAIO VGN-N365E running Windows Vista Premium. When I first got it I had went by a different name then, so when I did the startup and chose my user account name I used "Songocide". Now I go by intist. Well I was wondering if there is any possible way of changing this name to something else.

Here is a pic to help show what I'm talking about:


So I would want to change it like this:
C:\Users\Songocide
to:
C:\Users\intist

Is there anyway I could go about doing this?
Thank you,
Lee

Hi Lee,

Yes, but it is a little involved. The only way to change the username at the C:\Users\(username) location is to either create a new account and delete the old one, or reinstall Vista.

1. Create new Administrator account.
User Account - Create

2. Delete the old account account from within the new one.
A) Select Keep Files to save the contents of the old account's personal username folders to a folder on the desktop of the new account.
B) Transfer those files into your new user account personal username folders.

User Account - Delete

Shawn

Thanks alot Brink.

Your welcome Lee, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn