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| | Re-configuring user accounts When I first installed Vista (Ultimate on my husband's machine, Home Premium on mine), I had read that we should be running in standard user accounts rather than as administrators, so I installed that way on both machines. But as I found out more about the way UAC and administrator accounts work in Vista, I realized that we would be happier running as administrators, since we'll still be prompted by UAC when we do stuff that needs true administrator privileges. So, my question is: what is the best way to "fix" the accounts? I want one account that is the administrator account, and has all the user info from the user account that is currently the main account. I also want the final single account to have the name of the user account rather than the administrator account, if possible. (I named the user accounts with our first names and the administrator accounts with "AdminXxxx" where Xxxx is our first names.) Practically all, if not all, the user files are in the C:\User\Xxxx\... folder structure, while practically all of the program information (since most programs installed with administrative privileges) are in the C:\User\AdminXxxx\... folder structure. Also, what happens if I delete the AdminXxxx user? (So far, I have changed the Xxxx users to administrators, so there are currently two administrator accounts.) I have read here and there remarks about using the Easy Transfer program to migrate from one user to another, but so far only in the case where all the information was entirely in one user's folder structure (i.e. to change the name of a user everywhere as opposed to just the display name). Thanks, Kira |
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