Error in User Accounts

You most likely made username Pete when installing win7. It created Pete-pc as computer name. You want to change the computer name?

Before deleting an account, one should delete all folders assigned to the account.

you can boot up as an administrator, navigate to C:\Users\here the old account name, delete everything you can find there.

I never, never go to another location to view forum-related files.

Please use following procedure to post snapshots, etc.
Post a File or Screenshot in Seven Forums

Goto ControlPanel\System and Security\System and change the computername to anything you want

to determine current name and to change current name of your COMPUTER.
WIN | type POWERSHELL | do NOT hit ENTER |
keycombo CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER |
keycombo ALT + Y

type following and hit enter key:
(gwmi Win32_computersystem).name

that will show the present name.

now to change the name,for example to SchnickleFritz
(gwmi Win32_computersystem).rename ("SchnickleFritz")

to see the new name:

you can now type EXIT to exit powershell

(gwmi Win32_computersystem).name


Oh yes WIN = key with microsoft logo on top

karlsnooks said:

to determine current name and to change current name of your COMPUTER.
WIN | type POWERSHELL | do NOT hit ENTER |
keycombo CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER |
keycombo ALT + Y

type following and hit enter key:
(gwmi Win32_computersystem).name

that will show the present name.

now to change the name,for example to SchnickleFritz
(gwmi Win32_computersystem).rename ("SchnickleFritz")

to see the new name:

you can now type EXIT to exit powershell

(gwmi Win32_computersystem).name


Oh yes WIN = key with microsoft logo on top

keycombo ALT + Y is for Yes in UAC popup. But probably not in Danish!!! Yes and No are different in all languages!

True.

Thanks.

Most likely J for Ja.

I'll bet Peter has an excellent command of the English language, certainly better than my Danish.

karl

Peter,
Have a nice holiday.

When you get a chance then run CMD.EXE and execute the following two command lines.

wmic useraccount list full /format:table > %userprofile%\desktop\UserAccountsFull.txt

wmic sysaccount get Domain,LocalAccount,Name,SID,Status /format:table > %userprofile%\desktop\SystemAccounts.txt

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You might need to replace %userprofile% with c:\brugere\"Peter Stidsen".

You can run cmd.exe and type
SET
which will list all of the environment variables.

Here's what mine look like, to give you an idea of what to look for as equivalent to userprofile:

C:\Users\karl>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\karl\AppData\Roaming
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=LAPPY
ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\karl
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\karl\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\LAPPY
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\
dows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\sysinternalssuite;C:\Pr ogram Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\P
86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=AMD64 Family 17 Model 3 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=17
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0301
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Windows\TEMP
TMP=C:\Windows\TEMP
USERDOMAIN=lappy
USERNAME=karl
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\karl
windir=C:\Windows

karl,
veteran of several times walking the 300km Herresvejvandring