Re: Change Administrator folder association?

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.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"jabulani-jonny" <jabulanijonny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A8350EF4-35DE-476C-B5D6-441F98A6F7AE@microsoft.com...
> Well, I've moved all items from the \(Name) folder that was originally
> associated with my (Name) Administrator account to the \User\Administrator
> folder and made sure the location associations changed appropriately, and
> they did.
>
> Now, I've gone through and changed the read-only status of the \(Name)
> folder so that I can delete the files in the hidden folders and eventually
> delete that folder so I can rename the \(Name_2) folder to \(Name). The
> problem I run into is when I try to delete the files the computer locks up
> and I have to do a hard reboot, which I don't like doing. Any thoughts?
>
>

"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!

Your welcome, let us know if you need more help.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"jabulani-jonny" <jabulanijonny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6A92162-6966-4F21-A10C-2D90C21FF31A@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "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!