I've never paid much attention to user accounts, I had one admin account to serve them all but just before I upgraded my vista pc to win 7 I picked up some kind of nasty malware and now I'm committed to not using an admin account for general computing. But I'm confused about what I see in user accounts and what exists on my C drive and I'm hoping someone can explain it and answer a few questions.
When I first installed win 7 64 bit I entered the name "family" since it is a family computer. Then when I was connecting it to my WHS server I created a test account called "the Smiths" and later deleted it. When it was deleted I chose the option to erase the entire account and not save anything from it. Then when I decided I needed to get serious about user account control and not use an admin account for everything I changed my administrator account from "family" to "admin". I then created a new user account and called it "family".
But when I go to \users here is what I see:
1. My administrator account called "admin" is located at \users\family, the name of the original administrator account set up when I installed win 7.
2. My new user account "family" is located at \users\the Smiths, the name of the 2nd account I created and then supposedly deleted.
Why did Win 7 remember the name of the account I deleted? Why doesn't it change the directory to reflect the new names given to accounts? Can I change the directory to reflect the actual user names? I just want to eliminate any confusion that is created by directory names not matching user names. Thanks for any help.
When I first installed win 7 64 bit I entered the name "family" since it is a family computer. Then when I was connecting it to my WHS server I created a test account called "the Smiths" and later deleted it. When it was deleted I chose the option to erase the entire account and not save anything from it. Then when I decided I needed to get serious about user account control and not use an admin account for everything I changed my administrator account from "family" to "admin". I then created a new user account and called it "family".
But when I go to \users here is what I see:
1. My administrator account called "admin" is located at \users\family, the name of the original administrator account set up when I installed win 7.
2. My new user account "family" is located at \users\the Smiths, the name of the 2nd account I created and then supposedly deleted.
Why did Win 7 remember the name of the account I deleted? Why doesn't it change the directory to reflect the new names given to accounts? Can I change the directory to reflect the actual user names? I just want to eliminate any confusion that is created by directory names not matching user names. Thanks for any help.
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