I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and the
only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a document,
instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".

How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

Hello,

you can't do that so easily.
If you want to change your user name's folder in C:\Users, you have to set
up a new user account. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and
make a new account, copy all needed files from your old folder (\CCity\)
into that newly created folder.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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http://blog.lysorp.com - Small Windows blog in German language
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"Jannie" <Jannie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:10ECC534-13BB-4BD8-84A1-D0EA8FDDD9D5@xxxxxx

> I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and
> the
> only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a
> document,
> instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".
>
> How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you so much for replying. I'm still having some problems
understanding. When I make a new user account (as I did), should I make it
Standard or Admin? I'm not understanding how to get to the newly created
folder in order to copy the files there. I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but
the only other computers I've had have been built for me and all this was
already in place.

"P. Di Stolfo" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> you can't do that so easily.
> If you want to change your user name's folder in C:\Users, you have to set
> up a new user account. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and
> make a new account, copy all needed files from your old folder (\CCity\)
> into that newly created folder.
>
> Greetings,
> P. Di Stolfo
> --
> ////////////////////////////
> http://blog.lysorp.com - Small Windows blog in German language
> ///////////////////////////
>
> "Jannie" <Jannie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:10ECC534-13BB-4BD8-84A1-D0EA8FDDD9D5@xxxxxx

> > I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and
> > the
> > only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a
> > document,
> > instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".
> >
> > How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

>

Thanks, Brink! I'll give it a go.

"brink" wrote:

>
> Jannie;538784 Wrote:

> > Thank you so much for replying. I'm still having some problems
> > understanding. When I make a new user account (as I did), should I make
> > it
> > Standard or Admin? I'm not understanding how to get to the newly
> > created
> > folder in order to copy the files there. I'm sorry to be so ignorant,
> > but
> > the only other computers I've had have been built for me and all this
> > was
> > already in place.
> >

>
> Hi Jannie,
>
> You will need to create a new "Administrator" account with a username
> you are wanting to change the C:\Users\(username)" folder to from within
> your current Administrator account.
>
> See:
> User Account - Create
>
>
> Now, logoff your old Administrator account and logon to the newly
> created Administrator account. From within this account, delete your old
> Administrator account.
>
> See:
> NOTE: When you get to frame 6 in this tutorial below, you will have the
> option of saving all of the old Administrator's personal user folders to
> a folder on the new Administrator accounts desktop. You can then just
> copy them into the new user folders.
>
> User Account - Delete
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
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>

Ben Ernest,
I actually ran into the same situation today. I went into the registry to
change the user name to reflect the name of the user that is login.
Unfortunately for me the it return back to Ccity when I rebooted the system.
My fix to the scenario was to first of all, create another administrator
account, then deleted the Ccity account. When you delete the Ccity account,
you will be asked if you you want to keep your files or deleted them. Please
choose the keep your files options like that all of your files in the deleted
account will become a folder name after the user account that you just
deleted. You can login with the new administrator account and the recover
your old files.

I hope this help you!

"Jannie" wrote:

> Thank you so much for replying. I'm still having some problems
> understanding. When I make a new user account (as I did), should I make it
> Standard or Admin? I'm not understanding how to get to the newly created
> folder in order to copy the files there. I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but
> the only other computers I've had have been built for me and all this was
> already in place.
>
> "P. Di Stolfo" wrote:
>

> > Hello,
> >
> > you can't do that so easily.
> > If you want to change your user name's folder in C:\Users, you have to set
> > up a new user account. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and
> > make a new account, copy all needed files from your old folder (\CCity\)
> > into that newly created folder.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > P. Di Stolfo
> > --
> > ////////////////////////////
> > http://blog.lysorp.com - Small Windows blog in German language
> > ///////////////////////////
> >
> > "Jannie" <Jannie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:10ECC534-13BB-4BD8-84A1-D0EA8FDDD9D5@xxxxxx

> > > I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and
> > > the
> > > only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a
> > > document,
> > > instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".
> > >
> > > How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.

> >

Well.....I made a new Admin account and deleted the old one (saving files).
I did a search for "Ccity" and nothing's changed. All the documents, music,
etc., is still under "Ccity" (after reboot). Also, I now have to go in and
change all my settings. Perhaps I did something wrong? Maybe I'm just tired
and should take this all up again tomorrow? *banging my head against the
wall*

"Ernest Ben" wrote:

> Ben Ernest,
> I actually ran into the same situation today. I went into the registry to
> change the user name to reflect the name of the user that is login.
> Unfortunately for me the it return back to Ccity when I rebooted the system.
> My fix to the scenario was to first of all, create another administrator
> account, then deleted the Ccity account. When you delete the Ccity account,
> you will be asked if you you want to keep your files or deleted them. Please
> choose the keep your files options like that all of your files in the deleted
> account will become a folder name after the user account that you just
> deleted. You can login with the new administrator account and the recover
> your old files.
>
> I hope this help you!
>
> "Jannie" wrote:
>

> > Thank you so much for replying. I'm still having some problems
> > understanding. When I make a new user account (as I did), should I make it
> > Standard or Admin? I'm not understanding how to get to the newly created
> > folder in order to copy the files there. I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but
> > the only other computers I've had have been built for me and all this was
> > already in place.
> >
> > "P. Di Stolfo" wrote:
> >

> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > you can't do that so easily.
> > > If you want to change your user name's folder in C:\Users, you have to set
> > > up a new user account. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and
> > > make a new account, copy all needed files from your old folder (\CCity\)
> > > into that newly created folder.
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > P. Di Stolfo
> > > --
> > > ////////////////////////////
> > > http://blog.lysorp.com - Small Windows blog in German language
> > > ///////////////////////////
> > >
> > > "Jannie" <Jannie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:10ECC534-13BB-4BD8-84A1-D0EA8FDDD9D5@xxxxxx
> > > > I just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium. I'm the Admin and
> > > > the
> > > > only user. I've changed the name of the computer. When I create a
> > > > document,
> > > > instead of my name, I get "C:\Users\CCity\Documents".
> > > >
> > > > How can I change "CCity" to my name? Any help would be appreciated.
> > >

Originally Posted by brink

Hi Jannie,

You will need to create a new "Administrator" account with a username you are wanting to change the C:\Users\(username)" folder to from within your current Administrator account.

See:
User Account - Create


Now, logoff your old Administrator account and logon to the newly created Administrator account. From within this account, delete your old Administrator account.

See:
NOTE: When you get to frame 6 in this tutorial below, you will have the option of saving all of the old Administrator's personal user folders to a folder on the new Administrator accounts desktop. You can then just copy them into the new user folders.

User Account - Delete


Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi, I want to thank you so much to Brink for the advice I found in this thread (and Jannie for asking the question). I had a similar problem - had an ex-display PC from Staples who didn't wipe info off before giving it to me. So even though I changed the name everywhere I could find it was still coming up with Documents:Staples:etc. I took the PC back to Staples who had it for hours & told me the only way to solve it was to do full system recovery. I did a Google search just before starting & found this forum.
I saved the few docs I'd created to CD, created new admin user, deleted old one & problem solved. Thank you so much for making it easy. Now I'll have time for the Christmas shopping!