Well creating new user doesn't help in this case, as they will have to replicate the group membership as well as workstation profile for each and every user. However, if you choose this method, you can use dsquery.exe and dsmod.exe to replicate group membership and moveuser.exe to transfer profile from old user account to new user account on workstations.
Now, in case of just renaming the user. Workstation profiles are mapped using SID of user, and that doesn't change when you just rename the user. So what u see is new username mapped to oldusername folder. As rightly pointed out, the oldusername folder will create confusion, to overcome this you can rename the olduser folder and make some changes in registry where SID to oldusername folder mapping is kept. Login with local administrator account, other than user whose profile folder you want to rename. Rename the oldusername folder to newusername now goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Here you will see list of SIDs and their corresponding profile path as ProfileImagePath So, you will recongnize the user using its profilepath and change it to new one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
