Windows 7 - XP USER QUESTION

Asked By we on 08-Jul-12 01:32 PM
XP SP3 -
I temporarily created a user named YOU.  Then I went to Control
Panel>Users and change the user name to ME.  That was yesterday.
Today I booted up as ME, and downloaded some things from the web.
They went to Documents and Settings>YOU>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
I expected them at  Documents and Settings>ME>MY DOCUMENTS>DOWNLOADS.
What did not I do right?  IE, why am I working under YOU and not ME?
In fact - why does folder YOU still exist anyway?
Anyone?
XieXie
Wei


Char Jackson replied to we on 08-Jul-12 02:02 PM
You can change the name of the account as often as you wish, but the
file structure on the disk does not change. That's by design.

If you really want the file structure to be a certain way, you have to
create an account with the desired name rather than create an account
with the wrong name and then rename it.
David H. Lipman replied to Char Jackson on 08-Jul-12 02:22 PM
From: "Char Jackson" <none@none.invalid>

Panel>>> Users and change the user name to ME.  That was yesterday.

To add to that...
Accounts are based upon a Security Identifier (SID) and the name can change
but the SID stays the same and thus will use the same profile.

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we replied to David H. Lipman on 08-Jul-12 03:35 PM
Ok

Surprised, but ok

Wei