XP Professional: Changer Account Profile Name

Hi all,

my dad asked me to change the profile name of his laptop for him. He works in the university and his laptop is preconfigured by its IT department. I did the following:

- I changed the account name in Control Panel
- I found the SID of his current profile.
- I created a new temporary account, logged into that, and renamed the original profile folder under C:\Documents and Settings
- I then changed the registry path in ProfileImagePath

Here is the strange thing: according to instructions I found online, the steps above should have done it. However, when I look under User Profile in Systems, I still see the old profile name. It also shows up when I lock the computer. I think the original account may have been the default account that came with the computer, but apparently I can't copy the profile to a new one either, because it's grayed out. I think what I did above may be incomplete, so I was hoping someone here might know.

TIA

Yang

 

The smarter way to do it is to just create a new profile and use Copy To... and then delete the original (once you verify everything else).

 

That's what I'm saying... I can't select the current profile to copy it to the new one, because the old one is grayed out and there is no way that I can select it. Maybe it's because it's too big already... I don't know... wild guess... it is over 1 GB. It almost seems as though different settings have been applied to that profile, as I can copy and rename newly created profiles just fine.