> In Vista Home Premium, we have a corporate logo (with corporate name) set up
> at the Logon Screen which we do not want to tamper with, but the associated
> account has the name of a previous employee, which we want to change to a new
> employee name - keeping the files, but changing the owner.
>
> What is the procedure for doing this... ? Thanks!
> Some additional information:
>
> We do not want to 'add' another user name and copy the document files from
> the old user to the new one, because that would create a new user logon - we
> want to continue to use the 'corporate logo' logon as the only logon on that
> machine. We just want to change the name that appears as the owner of the
> 'documents'...
>
> Hope some one can help with this - we have been googling and searching for
> an answer for over a week... :-)
>
> "nokomis" wrote:
>> > In Vista Home Premium, we have a corporate logo (with corporate name) set up
> > at the Logon Screen which we do not want to tamper with, but the associated
> > account has the name of a previous employee, which we want to change to a new
> > employee name - keeping the files, but changing the owner.
> >
> > What is the procedure for doing this... ? Thanks!
> Still hoping for some guidance... :-)
>
> "nokomis" wrote:
>>> Some additional information:
>>
>> We do not want to 'add' another user name and copy the document files
>> from
>> the old user to the new one, because that would create a new user logon -
>> we
>> want to continue to use the 'corporate logo' logon as the only logon on
>> that
>> machine. We just want to change the name that appears as the owner of the
>> 'documents'...
>>
>> Hope some one can help with this - we have been googling and searching
>> for
>> an answer for over a week... :-)
>>
>> "nokomis" wrote:
>>>> > In Vista Home Premium, we have a corporate logo (with corporate name)
>> > set up
>> > at the Logon Screen which we do not want to tamper with, but the
>> > associated
>> > account has the name of a previous employee, which we want to change to
>> > a new
>> > employee name - keeping the files, but changing the owner.
>> >
>> > What is the procedure for doing this... ? Thanks!
> Control panel
> User Accounts and Family Safety
> User Accounts
> Change your account name
>
> ?? doesn't work for you ??
>
> Michael
>
>
> "nokomis" <nokomis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:959E185B-535D-4C16-B460-489072315356@microsoft.com...> > Still hoping for some guidance... :-)>
> >
> > "nokomis" wrote:
> >> >> Some additional information:
> >>
> >> We do not want to 'add' another user name and copy the document files
> >> from
> >> the old user to the new one, because that would create a new user logon -
> >> we
> >> want to continue to use the 'corporate logo' logon as the only logon on
> >> that
> >> machine. We just want to change the name that appears as the owner of the
> >> 'documents'...
> >>
> >> Hope some one can help with this - we have been googling and searching
> >> for
> >> an answer for over a week... :-)
> >>
> >> "nokomis" wrote:
> >>
> >> > In Vista Home Premium, we have a corporate logo (with corporate name)
> >> > set up
> >> > at the Logon Screen which we do not want to tamper with, but the
> >> > associated
> >> > account has the name of a previous employee, which we want to change to
> >> > a new
> >> > employee name - keeping the files, but changing the owner.
> >> >
> >> > What is the procedure for doing this... ? Thanks!
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