There's this one thing I don't know.., How to rename your system? |
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 Dec 30 2006, 09:56 PM
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Yeah, so when I was registering my new laptop, I think I skipped a step and it has a generic name now..
Ex: C:\Documents and Settings\HPOwner\My Documents\My Music How do you change that? I've been searching around for it for a while, but I can't find anything.  I know for a fact that it's not the computer name. I tried it already. I also tried renaming the administrator account, but that doesn't work. I have a feeling that it was the original administrator account name, though, but I don't know how to change it.  So guys, how do I change it? Help is very much appreciated! 
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Dec 31 2006, 11:46 PM
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 Photoartist Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,363 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 399,390 |
I'm guessing you checked out the Control Panel already?
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Jan 1 2007, 09:46 AM
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Yeah, I've checked every part of it..
Like.. When I view the system properties, under General it says 'Registered to: HPOwner'. The only way I can think of to fix it is reinstall Windows, but I don't want to do that. =/ |
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| *mipadi* |
Jan 1 2007, 11:24 AM
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It's the name of a user. There must be a user named "HPOwner".
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Jan 1 2007, 11:54 AM
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There was, but I changed it.. My username on it is Elaine, but in the My Documents folder, it still shows up as HPOwner.
Do I have to reregister/reinstall, or is there another way to change it? |
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| *T0rmented_Soul* |
Jan 1 2007, 11:58 AM
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When you reformat/reinstall on some computers in the beggining you get the chance of naming your computer. But I don't know about HP.
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Jan 1 2007, 12:04 PM
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 ./ Group: Member Posts: 467 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 53,533 |
this has got to be frusterating im sure, but i have a powerbook g3, and theres a thing on the system preferences that i can just go in and change it.
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| *T0rmented_Soul* |
Jan 1 2007, 12:08 PM
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| *mipadi* |
Jan 1 2007, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE(rawr SOCK @ Jan 1 2007, 11:54 AM)  There was, but I changed it.. My username on it is Elaine, but in the My Documents folder, it still shows up as HPOwner. Do I have to reregister/reinstall, or is there another way to change it? Windows XP might not change the directory name when the username changes. I don't know for sure. |
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Jan 1 2007, 06:51 PM
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. Group: Member Posts: 3,264 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 761 |
^ Yeah, it doesn't.. It still keeps the name of the original user.
I finally got an email back from HP customer service.. I fixed it, all I had to do was edit the registry. Thanks anyways, everyone! This can be closed now. |
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Jan 1 2007, 08:15 PM
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 Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
Sure thing.
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