Aren't clients fun? Sounds like you just need to create another user with an
identical profile to old one.  Take a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;811151 and see if
that won't do what you want.

Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] XP User problem


A divorced customer has been awarded the family XP Pro computer as part of
her settlement (the husband got to keep the dog:--))

She doesn't want to change the appearance of the computer, (desktop
settings, shortcuts etc etc), or the way it runs, but she's adamant that I
eradicate every instance of the old user name (her married name) and replace
them with her maiden name.

I've tried this sort of thing a few times before with XP, and every time
I've screwed something up and the computer has lost desktop settings, mail
account settings, even installed programs have no longer functioned
correctly.

Does anyone know if it's possible to 'eradicate' a user like this, while
retaining all of the settings?

By way of further information, there was only one user account set up (as
well as the hidden administrator account, accessed through Safe Mode), so
all that's needed to start Windows is a single push of the power-on button.

And in Documents and settings, there's the usual folders - Administrator,
All Users, Default User and the offending 'married name' folder.

TX

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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