Hi folks,
I'm coming from a Win7 Pro laptop and just purchased a new PC Laptop with Win 11 Pro. (As an aside, I have grown to hate the 11 interface.) Having said that, I am the only user account on the PC which was created during the initial setup where I became the Administrator. Because I wanted to port much of my apps and files from my old laptop, I wanted to change several things, one was the way my name was shown. I went to the Control Panel>User Accounts>User Accounts. There is no 'Change Name' link there next to my account. I had searched how to change the name and all suggest using the Change Name link on the Accounts page.
In a related issue, in the C:\User directory, nowhere does my name show. In its place there is a folder with the beginning of my email address, which I'm assuming is me. When I check the Security Properties of this folder, the list in the Groups contains: Everyone; Account Unknown(S-...); SYSTEM;Administrators(TheVee-Laptop\Administrators);Users(TheVee-Laptop\Users). Account Unknown has no permissions; Everyone and Users(TheVee-Laptop\Users) have: Read & Execute, List folder contents and Read permissions; SYSTEM and Administrators(TheVee-Laptop...) have all permissions.
Again having come from a Win7 Pro box, the folder with my name, in C:\Users, shows the Security Permissions as: SYSTEM; Vic(Dell-Laptop\Vic) and Administrators(Dell-Laptop\Administrators) having all permissions. So my question is: Why is there this disparity?
Can anyone shed some light on these issues?
Thanks,
Vic
I'm coming from a Win7 Pro laptop and just purchased a new PC Laptop with Win 11 Pro. (As an aside, I have grown to hate the 11 interface.) Having said that, I am the only user account on the PC which was created during the initial setup where I became the Administrator. Because I wanted to port much of my apps and files from my old laptop, I wanted to change several things, one was the way my name was shown. I went to the Control Panel>User Accounts>User Accounts. There is no 'Change Name' link there next to my account. I had searched how to change the name and all suggest using the Change Name link on the Accounts page.
In a related issue, in the C:\User directory, nowhere does my name show. In its place there is a folder with the beginning of my email address, which I'm assuming is me. When I check the Security Properties of this folder, the list in the Groups contains: Everyone; Account Unknown(S-...); SYSTEM;Administrators(TheVee-Laptop\Administrators);Users(TheVee-Laptop\Users). Account Unknown has no permissions; Everyone and Users(TheVee-Laptop\Users) have: Read & Execute, List folder contents and Read permissions; SYSTEM and Administrators(TheVee-Laptop...) have all permissions.
Again having come from a Win7 Pro box, the folder with my name, in C:\Users, shows the Security Permissions as: SYSTEM; Vic(Dell-Laptop\Vic) and Administrators(Dell-Laptop\Administrators) having all permissions. So my question is: Why is there this disparity?
Can anyone shed some light on these issues?
Thanks,
Vic