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Changing Home Directory of First User

Asked by Jorpho in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: xp, home, windows, directory, changing

When you install Windows XP (or just start up a new computer for the first time), you are prompted to create at least one user, which will end up having administrative rights. During a recent installation, I inadvertently specified the user name of "group". Unfortunately, I want "group" to be an account with limited priviledges.

Using the Users and Groups item in the Computer Management control panel, I successfully renamed "group" to "Administrator2", and then created a new user with limited priviledges named "group". The problem is that "Administrator2" still uses C:\Documents and Settings\group as its "home" directory, whereas "group" is stuck with C:\Documents and Settings\group_2. This is not desirable.

If I go to the Users and Groups item in Computer Management, I do have the option of deleting the "Administrator2" account. However, I get a message stating that each user has a unique identifier associated with it and that even creating a new user with the same old name will not restore access to items in a deleted user's access control list (or words to that effect). This is rather worrying, as "Administrator2" seems to be a special account; there's no way to delete it from the User control panel (regardless of whether I am logged in as Administrator or not).

If I go to the registry and start playing with the ProfileImagePath values under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, I end up creating directories with names like Administrator2.ComputerName and group.computername under C:\Documents and Settings.

So, is there some other way to move the "home" directory of "Administrator2" ? Or am I really just worrying over nothing, and should go right ahead and delete the "Administrator2" account because there's really nothing special about it?

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Changing Home Directory of First User

Asked by Jorpho in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: xp, home, windows, directory, changing

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