How to change user name Owner?


  1. Posts : 98
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
       #1

    How to change user name Owner?


    I purchased a solid state drive, had Windows 7 Professional installed on it, and had the drive installed in a laptop computer; love the performance of my refurbished laptop , except on the System drive in the Users account the name Owner appears. Where did this come from?

    When I go to User Accounts in the Control Panel and click on Manage Accounts, Owner does not appear. Why?

    KCav
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  2. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #2

    Sounds like someone renamed the account via User Accounts in Control Panel, which is okay to do but it does not change the underlying directory structure under C:\Users. It will still be called C:\Users\Owner.

    If you want to get rid of that then rename it back to Owner using User Accounts then create a new user account with the name you want. Copy everything from the Owner folder tree to the new Folder tree, test and delete Owner when satisfied.

    See here: Fix a corrupted user profile
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