My first post here, but I've been reading [H] for years now. Great site.
I recently made the switch from Win 2k Executive edition to XP Pro (mostly because I lost my 2k disk), so I'm not all that familiar / comfortable with it yet.
During instilation, it asked me what my name was. Due to some poor information from a friend, I was under the impression that XP didn't actually have an "administrator" account, and instead, whatever name you entered here became the head admin account itself. So, I figured I'd like to have it set up just like 2k was, and so I would tell it my name was "Administrator" and then later I'd set up individual accounts later.
Well, it wouldn't let me, obviously, so I just said "Cronyx". After it was done installing everything, I later got the notion to use the name "Sysop" for the primary admin account.
Thinking that the "Cronyx" account was the only account on the box, and was basically the god admin account, I figured I'd just rename THAT one to "Sysop" and then create a new "Cronyx" account.
That was all well and fine, and I figured it was set up the way I wanted it.
Then about a month later, I loaded a game for multiplayer, and my default player name after installing it, before I told it what I wanted my name to be, was "Cronyx_2" and of course, I'm all "WTF?"
So I finally go into computer managment and look at these wierd account settings.
I see there IS an Administrator account, you just can't normally get to it. I enable it to show up on the login screen, and then I notice something odd...
"Sysop" is actually "Cronyx" and the NEW "Cronyx" is "Cronyx_2"
This... doesn't really matter, I guess... But it just bothers me. It's actively pissing me off to think about, all the time.
I've been playing around with it, and I can't figure out how to fix any of this. I don't want to just rename "Sysop" back to "Cronyx" and then delete "Cronyx_2" because the latter is where everything is installed, and there are various registry entries, etc etc, that are all locked into that account.
I guess I could just reinstall the damn OS and do it right this time, but that seems like over kill.
Any advice as to what I should do at this point would be appriciated. Thanks in advance for entertaining my bizzar anal retentive idiosyncrancies.
Edit:
PS, how do I change my avatar image? (on the forum, not in XP
I recently made the switch from Win 2k Executive edition to XP Pro (mostly because I lost my 2k disk), so I'm not all that familiar / comfortable with it yet.
During instilation, it asked me what my name was. Due to some poor information from a friend, I was under the impression that XP didn't actually have an "administrator" account, and instead, whatever name you entered here became the head admin account itself. So, I figured I'd like to have it set up just like 2k was, and so I would tell it my name was "Administrator" and then later I'd set up individual accounts later.
Well, it wouldn't let me, obviously, so I just said "Cronyx". After it was done installing everything, I later got the notion to use the name "Sysop" for the primary admin account.
Thinking that the "Cronyx" account was the only account on the box, and was basically the god admin account, I figured I'd just rename THAT one to "Sysop" and then create a new "Cronyx" account.
That was all well and fine, and I figured it was set up the way I wanted it.
Then about a month later, I loaded a game for multiplayer, and my default player name after installing it, before I told it what I wanted my name to be, was "Cronyx_2" and of course, I'm all "WTF?"
So I finally go into computer managment and look at these wierd account settings.
I see there IS an Administrator account, you just can't normally get to it. I enable it to show up on the login screen, and then I notice something odd...
"Sysop" is actually "Cronyx" and the NEW "Cronyx" is "Cronyx_2"
This... doesn't really matter, I guess... But it just bothers me. It's actively pissing me off to think about, all the time.
I've been playing around with it, and I can't figure out how to fix any of this. I don't want to just rename "Sysop" back to "Cronyx" and then delete "Cronyx_2" because the latter is where everything is installed, and there are various registry entries, etc etc, that are all locked into that account.
I guess I could just reinstall the damn OS and do it right this time, but that seems like over kill.
Any advice as to what I should do at this point would be appriciated. Thanks in advance for entertaining my bizzar anal retentive idiosyncrancies.
Edit:
PS, how do I change my avatar image? (on the forum, not in XP