i (sort of) messed up my friend's machine

[TheStu]

After months and months of coaxing my roommate to re-format his machine and upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro he finally did about a week and a half ago. When he got to the final screen asking him for a user name I told him that we could just put in anything, because he could rename the administrator account and use that. So i typed in 'El Senor Happy Pants' as his account name instead of CJ. Well, i was incredibly wrong... we couldnt rename the administrator account (i really thought we could) we also couldnt delete El Senor Happy Pants and make administrator the only account (thought we could do that too).

So he has since renamed his account from El Senor Happy Pants to CJ, however, all of his documents folders and what not still say "El Senor Happy Pants" for instance when he goes to command prompt it read c:\windows\users\el senor happy pants\... you get the idea.

So here is the question of sorts... does anybody know of a registry entry, or app, or anything that will rename the account fully? Let him be CJ, and not El senor Happy Pants masquerading as CJ...

 

[p0ntif]

LoL. That's just awesome. Thanks for the laugh. Sorry I'm not being helpful, it's just funny.

 

[Tsaico]

I think it is funny too, but the admin account can be renamed,
Renaming administrator account
And if you are logged in as the user in question you won't be able to delete him, but if are the administrator, I assure you can delete whoever you want.
But as far as re-naming account fully, I would just dump that account and start over.

 

[TheStu]

Seriously... swear to god, we checked that and didnt see it... maybe we just werent looking in the right place... either way, when we were logged in as admin, we didnt have the option to delete the account for some reason, we cant figure out why... who the account being password protected have anything to do with it?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Create a new account then delete his old one?

 

[Tsaico]

Well I doubt it, just look at the local users section in the Computer Management MMC and just delete the guy from there. You can also re-create him and then add his credentials at this point.