Hello
I have a new computer with Vista Home Premium 64 and am having some teething problems which I cant seem to fix no matter how much I try and google for an answer, if anyone could offer me some advice I would really really really appreciate it!!!!!
Firstly When the PC shipped to me the user account in vista was 'mycompany' I wanted it to be 'myname' so I went in to the control panel and changed it.
I am having the same problem as described here:
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/60864-user-folder-name-wont-change.html
I would rather not create an account and delete the old one (Im a relative newbie and scared something will go wrong) but if I leave it as it is:
I can go to my files via the file tree on the left of the window when you open Computer in the vista start menu (the top of the window shows: Desktop/myname/myfiles), IF I go through to the same files by actually clicking on the big folder icons in the same window it still shows the same files as C:/mycompany/myfiles.
which just seems plain wrong (having 2 different file structures?) and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this will have any consequences in the future (Im a photographer and I have 750GB of photos on my primary drive I cannot afford to have corrupted- I really need this system to be as stable as possible)- already this morning I tried to delete a folder via myname/myfiles and could not, had to go through C:/mycompany/myfiles to do so (though this does seem to have been a one off since I can delete other folders?)
So is it a problem to leave it as it is? and must I create a new user account to avoid future problems?
Anyway I know this may seem like a niggling little problem since my PC is actually working but any advice would be appreciated since I am terrified of losing any of my data and its really freaking me out
I have a new computer with Vista Home Premium 64 and am having some teething problems which I cant seem to fix no matter how much I try and google for an answer, if anyone could offer me some advice I would really really really appreciate it!!!!!
Firstly When the PC shipped to me the user account in vista was 'mycompany' I wanted it to be 'myname' so I went in to the control panel and changed it.
I am having the same problem as described here:
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/60864-user-folder-name-wont-change.html
I would rather not create an account and delete the old one (Im a relative newbie and scared something will go wrong) but if I leave it as it is:
I can go to my files via the file tree on the left of the window when you open Computer in the vista start menu (the top of the window shows: Desktop/myname/myfiles), IF I go through to the same files by actually clicking on the big folder icons in the same window it still shows the same files as C:/mycompany/myfiles.
which just seems plain wrong (having 2 different file structures?) and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this will have any consequences in the future (Im a photographer and I have 750GB of photos on my primary drive I cannot afford to have corrupted- I really need this system to be as stable as possible)- already this morning I tried to delete a folder via myname/myfiles and could not, had to go through C:/mycompany/myfiles to do so (though this does seem to have been a one off since I can delete other folders?)
So is it a problem to leave it as it is? and must I create a new user account to avoid future problems?
Anyway I know this may seem like a niggling little problem since my PC is actually working but any advice would be appreciated since I am terrified of losing any of my data and its really freaking me out
