On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:12:02 -0700, ~ William ~ wrote:
> Sharon,
> First of all, thanks for the speedy reply.
> As you suspected, the latter of the folders you described were the duplicates.
> I moved everything into the correct folders and deleted the rest but Windows
> still will not let me rename the correct folders with the correct name;
> William's Documents, for example. I still get the same error message. Do you
> have any suggestions that may help me out?
You don't want to rename the folder to William's Documents.
XP does this
little trick on its own. Instead....
If you rename your user account to William then opening My Computer will
show Files Stored on this Computer: Shared Documents and William's
Documents.
As far as having folder names that match the user names, it's a lot of work
but can be done. The following MSKB article has the details. (NOTE: Your
current profiles aren't corrupt as mentioned in the title but they're
unwanted because of the .xxxxx at the end of the folder names.)
How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=811151
General gist of the article and what you need to do:
Create an account in the administrator group. This will be a throw away
account that will be deleted later. Log off so that you can log on to this
new account. (Important to log off and not switch users).
Rename the existing users. Their displayed names will change, the names of
the underlying folders will stay the same (username.username). Restart
because permissions are loaded at startup and you want to be sure that the
new account names propagate completely to all the user portions of the
registry.
Create new accounts with the names that you want to ultimately use. Each
user needs to be logged on once for their folders to be created. User names
and folder names will now match.
Then copy the old accounts to the new accounts. Check that info has
transferred correctly. May need to re-enter a few things such as
username/passwords if you use software provided by your ISP or in settings
for email programs but everything else should have made it over to the new
accounts.
Once you're sure that everything transferred okay, delete the old accounts
(the ones that were renamed earlier). Delete the temporary administrator
account created at the beginning of this exercise.
--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
