G+_John D. Hawkins Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 So I was going to try to find a Windows forum, then I remembered I have over 11,000 KITA's I can ask... Several years ago I was setting up my wife's new work desktop PC. I was finishing up the process and as I named her root user ID I moved the keyboard and apparently the ID got highlighted as I hit the "~" key in the upper left corner of the keyboard. It never has really hurt anything aside from my OCD as all of her files show an owner of ~ is there anyway to fix that? Back then it was WIN7 Pro it is now WIN10 Pro. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Hutchinson Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 IIRC, there is no way to fix it without hitting bad but obscure problems down the road. This is because the username ends up in so many places on the disk and in the registry, some of which are encoded in a way that makes them nearly impossible to find. The only safe solution is to create a brand new account, copy over flies and then go through and manually change all the settings that were previously changed from their default values. After your sure everything is all set you can delete the old user account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Brown Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Yeah, I second that. Make a new account, copy everything over, then disable or delete the account. I like to disable for 30 days before I delete it completely. It'll give you a change to go back for anything you missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Renaming an account is not a problem. Renaming the profile would be an issue. If you just want to change the name, I would just go ahead and do so. If you want to rename the profile, I would do it as others suggested with a fresh profile with just the data copied over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John D. Hawkins Posted March 25, 2018 Author Share Posted March 25, 2018 She hasn’t noticed and at the moment nothing seems to be broken besides that. I think I’m just gonna try to ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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