Renowned owner account still shows as owner - can it be changed?

My computer has been preconfigured at Best Buy with an administrator called owner account.  I have renamed this account in my own name and an icon with the same name appears on the Welcome screen.  When I click on this icon to start a session from this list of users still shows owner as username, and there is no record for a user with the name that I used to rename the owner.

How can I fix this?  Thanks for your help.

On 7 Aug 10 18:52, Gumbo Taylor wrote:
> My computer has been preconfigured at Best Buy with an administrator account
> Owner. I renamed this account in my own name and an icon with the same name
> appears on the Welcome screen. When I click on this icon to start a session of this
> list of users always appear as user name owner, and there is no record for a
> user with the name that I used to rename the owner.
>
> How can I fix this? Thanks for your help.
>
 
User profile folders are protected systems files and cannot be
renamed safely without also having to perform several potentially
dangerous registry changes.  This has always been the case with
NT-Microsoft operating system.
Rename a user account will not rename existing
profile in C:\Users user folders.
You must create a new user account with the desired name, and
then log in order to create with the desired name user profile folders.
 
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