Rename account back to Administrator caused problems
From: BCbuyer (BCbuyer@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/13/02
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From: "BCbuyer" <BCbuyer@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:57:07 GMT
I just renamed my Administrator account *back* to Administrator, but I have
some problems. The directory structure still carries the username from when
I renamed it to something different and all the registry entries still have
the old (not Administrator) references. Attempts to manually rename the
directory tree back to Administrator gives me a warning about it being a
system file. Further, the Administrator's documents folder does not show up
in the "Files Stored on This Computer" section of the "My Computer" display
when viewing it from another privileged user account.
Here's how I got into this mess:
I thought the idea of renaming the Administrator account to be a good one,
so I used the Local Security Policy tool to accomplish this in my brand new
Windows XP Pro installation. This tool managed to rename the Administrator
directory tree to the new username and make all the appropriate registry
updates. Things *seemed* to work well until I started verifying my Scheduled
Tasks. There I found that even after making sure the username/password
matched, the jobs would not start automatically at their scheduled time (the
wake computer bit was not even an issue). Interestingly enough, the tasks
*would* run if I used the "Run" option within Scheduled Tasks to force an
immediate run.
Since this was reminiscent of an ongoing problem for Scheduled Tasks and
renamed accounts (I discovered later), I decided that I was best off to
rename the account *back* to Administrator using the same tool.
How can I clean this up? Is there some "proper" way of doing this that I am
missing?
Thanks,
Peter
Please reply via e-mail to bcbuyer@hotmail.com and I will summarize.
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