I installed XP 3 years ago and the only account I have (and use daily) is the built-in administrator account! I don't remember how I did this but I did! At the time, I didn't know to not do it that way! (I now have a 2nd admin account but don't use it). Anyway, I have full access to the built-in account and would like to change the username from Administrator to Administrator1. However, when I do this everything seems to be fine but there are a few things (that I've noticed so far) that do not carry over. For example, all the stored profiles for the many wireless sites I visit are not available to me while the username is Administrator1. When I change it back to Administrator all is well.Another reason for wanting to change the username on the built-in admin account is because my partition of the NAS drive on our network will not permit me to have access granted to only "my" Windows login and password because it is "Administrator" and that is the only username it will not allow! As a result, I can't set up a drive that is only available to me. Everyone else on the network have their own private drive (mainly used for backup) because their username/pw is not administrator.Can you halp me with this transition please? Thank you.1 person needs an answerI do too

Don't bother changing the built-in Administrator's name. Make yourself a new user account and copy the settings from Administrator to it. Create a New User Profile in Windows XP Professional 1. Log on as the Administrator or as a user with administrator credentials. 2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 3. Click User Accounts. 4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced. 5. In the left pane, click the Users folder. 6. On the Action menu, click New User. 7. Enter the appropriate user information, and then click Create. You'll need to have three users on the system so create an extra one called "Tech" or "Extra' or the like (which you can delete later if you like) and the user account you're going to work from daily. Log into your new daily user account once so the profile files/folders are created and then log back out into "Tech". From there: Copy Files to the New User Profile 1. Log on as a user other than the user whose profile you are copying files to or from. 2. In Windows Explorer, click Tools, click Folder Options, click the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, click to clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, and then click OK. 3. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator folder. 4. Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file and subfolder in this folder, except the following files: * Ntuser.dat * Ntuser.dat.log * Ntuser.ini 5. On the Edit menu, click Copy. 6. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\New_Username folder, where New_Username is the name of your new daily user account. 7. On the Edit menu, click Paste. 8. Log off the computer, and then log on as the new user. Note: You must import your e-mail messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. For additional information see 313055 OLEXP: Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing After You Upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP . There will be a few things that are different such as your wallpaper, but all your stuff should be there.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

Malkeleah, Thank you so much for your suggestion. It looks like your procedure will work just great! However, I have a big problem with ANY new account that I create! I've been working on this for the better part of two days now and it's driving me crazy!The main account that I log into everyday is the (builtin) Administrator account. While in there, I can create new users, with or without admin rights (doesn't matter). Then I can go into either of those newly created user accounts and in all cases, when I right click on a file or folder in My Computer then Windows Explorer crashes!! It crashes so hard that I have to go into task manager and kill it the rest of the way. After doing so, it automatically fires back up and all returns to normal. Further right clicking on just about ANY object cause Win Explorer to crash again. When I'm in my main account, there is no trouble with Win Explorer whatsoever!I have followed about every thread on here as to how to resolve this problem but absolutely nothing has worked. I've even disabled literally every entry in the ShellMenuView but still right clicking on almost all objects causes Win Explorer to crash! Once again, there is NO PROBLEM on my main admin account.Do you have any suggestions for this? Thanks very much.

No, I would have suggested ShellExView. How long has this been going on? What is the answer to The First Question Of Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what changed between the time things worked and the time they didn't? And The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and versions) did you use to determine this?MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

Thank you for your feedback. It's all resolved!! I took your suggestion and used ShellExView, located the offending context menu item (Copy to CD shell extension), and my problem with Win Explorer crashing was instantly solved! This permitted me to apply your procedure of copying the administrator settings over to a new admin account. All is well and I thank you!

I'm very glad to hear it. I thought you'd already used ShellExView. In any case, I'm happy things are sorted now. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

No. I had used ShellMenuView by mistake thinking I was getting ShellExView? They were both from the same site but very different in what they showed. For example, when using ShellMenuView I didn't see any lines associated with "context menu" stuff. Then, taking your suggestion (which I thought you were directly saying no don't use MenuView use ExView instead), I was then able to see all the context menu entries and resolve my problem! Thanks again, Mike