My opening of user account and profile my c: drive user names do not match. Multiple user profiles.

RE: Vista Home Premium 32 bit W/sp2 installed. FYI - recently got a new hard drive and a new installation of the Vista operating system.

I'll try to keep this as simple as I can, so bear with me. I have my c: drive under users 4 ads, which contain the normal operating system files. My guest account is disabled. I am the admin on the admin account, which is the only active account running at the moment. I deleted an administrator account and a user account standard and kept my 1 active admin account. I wish that were the only account on this computer as I'm the only one to use it in the future. Profiles are always on my c: drive and I would like to delete and rename my admin account to show as such. I changed my admin account name and thought I would just remove all from drive c: under users.except my account. My account name is easy to change but the profile on the disc is the former name of admin account and there is no option to change. When I open windows Explorer to my documents folder the name changed to the new name. When searching in each profile, I find that the folders and files I added are all in the old profile folder and partially in the new profile. Some are just empty and they appear in the other. Its a dam mess! How, or can I combine all my folders and files under just the profile of a user that will be used? I thought I would copy everything from the old to the new admin account, but windows will recognize even these files under a new account name? I'm also afraid to change my password to prevent implementing locked out my own computer. I read all kinds of horror stories on the web about it. How can something seemingly so simple be such a Pandora's box. I have not deleted anything yet but profiles of user accounts. Now my system is stable and works very well. No problem to speak of, but as time go on and Add / Remove programs and move things around I'll never know where to find anything. I would like to put something in its place and be there when I need it. I think that there may be problems with the standard accounts and admin / permissions or something but I do not have the ability to copy or to move things and losing important data, until I hear something concrete. I hope someone can help and thank you.

As always - changing the user name does not change the name of the folder.  If you want to get the name of the folder and the user name corresponds to-creating a new user with the name that you want to name the user name and the folder and copy the data you want to keep the new user.  Then delete the old user and all files/folders via the user control panel.

Really - * you * is the realization of a complicated.

(1) create the * new * user account from scratch with the username you want.  This will make the user name and the corresponding folder.  (Of course - you may need to change the username on a current user if t ever get the one you want first.)

(2) copy the Documents, photos, etc. you want from the old account to the new.

(3) via the user control panel, remove whatever you do not want users.  Don't do this manually.  You have no reason to go in the C:\USERS\ yourself.  If you do, * you * are causing you pain.

(4) you do really want two administrative level accounts in case you lose access to the other.  It's just the wise thing to do.

Windows 7 is a multi-user system - even if you are the only physical user.

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