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how do I remove erroneous user name in windows login?
Windows 7 is giving me trouble. Initially, I had been running with only one user account. Originally I believe it was named "pob" (not important). A few years ago I changed the name to "D830-laptop" and ran this as administrator.
Recently I was enlightened to the problems that could arise if running all the time as administrator, so I made new accounts on all of my PCs. I went to my laptop and created a new account and named it "joe" (fictitious) and gave it administrator privileges, then changed the D830 account to standard user vice administrator. This seemed to work well on my other PCs, but when I did this on my laptop, I came up with something unexpected. When I rebooted the system the Windows logon screen came up with the original "pob" username and said that the password was incorrect. Long story short, I cannot find any user account that is labeled "pob". How can I prevent windows from trying to bring this account up? My administrator account is password protected, but the D830 account is not because it is only a standard user account (now). Is there some place hidden that would have this info? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I hope that this was clear enough to understand.