There seems to be an option under user accounts to in fact change the username, but I would definitely do some form of backup etc. just in case before doing too much.
HTH Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Blind Computing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:31 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] CHANGING my USER NAME > Hi to all on list: > > My name is Hal and I just joined yesterday. A little about myself, I am a > blind computer user living in Canada, my screen reader is Jaws and I use > Windows XP as my operating system. I enjoy computers, music, reading, and > lawn bowling. > > An interesting thing happened to me the other day. Basically my user > profile appears to have gotten corrupted. How this happened, I don't know > except to say that it all began right after I lost all sounds and jfw 9.0 > wouldn't talk. The only thing I remember is that I held down on the power > button on my laptop's docking bay for 10 seconds until the system shut > off. Perhaps I hit an odd keystroke before that I just don't know. > Whenever I'd boot my system, both my Jaws and Windows settings weren't > retained; it was like Windows lost the ability to remember the changes I > made. I like to use Windows classic start menu but at that point, Windows > had other ideas; I'd have to make the change every time. Can anyone here > relate to this? My dad, who is very knowledgeable about computers saw that > Windows was unable to locate my user profile. He was able to create > another account for me, it's Haliard. For now, when I boot my computer > Jaws comes up with the log on screen, and I am given th > e choice to log in as either Hal Pearson, or Haliard. If I log in as Hal > Pearson, my settings will not stick so I log in as Haliard. Once I get rid > of the corrupt files and throw away the old Hal Pearson account, I'd like > to rename Haliard, back to Hal Pearson. So when I arrow up and down in my > start menu, I see, "log off Haliard..." Where do I go to make this change > so I'll then see "log off Hal Pearson"? I can make an educated guess. I > went exploring in control panel and found user accounts. Do I make the > change there? > > Hal > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
