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normdzn · Feb 9, 2006, 05:51 PM

Hi Y'all,

Under system preferences - "users" - "accounts" - how can I change the "short name" of an existing account? And can I decrease the sound of the of the computer on start-up. Under "sound" - output - it says that there are no controls for the selected output?

normdzn · Feb 9, 2006, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by normdzn

Hi Y'all,

Under system preferences - "users" - "accounts" - how can I change the "short name" of an existing account? And can I decrease the sound of the of the computer on start-up. Under "sound" - output - it says that there are no controls for the selected output?

Sorry, I'm on Panther OSX 10.3.9

Thinine · Feb 9, 2006, 06:15 PM

rofl at the censorship of the thread title.

Detrius · Feb 9, 2006, 09:55 PM

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...short+username

CharlesS · Feb 9, 2006, 10:34 PM

Is censoring words that you wouldn't expect to be censored the new thing here at MacNN or something?

red rocket · Feb 10, 2006, 04:14 AM

"unt" is a word?

As for the startup chime volume, I tend to keep something plugged into one of the headphone jacks.

CaptainHaddock · Feb 10, 2006, 04:24 AM

"unt" is a word?

Since I see four letters censored, I assume he hit "c" one time too many by accident.

OreoCookie · Feb 10, 2006, 04:36 AM

Hmmm, let's see. Acco****. Acco****. Acco****. Neato

Dork. · Feb 10, 2006, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by normdzn

And can I decrease the sound of the of the computer on start-up. Under "sound" - output - it says that there are no controls for the selected output?

I've used this for quite a while now, and it does the job nicely. I still don't know why Apple didn't include this in Os X....

osxrules · Feb 10, 2006, 08:24 AM

ACCOCUΝT

works for me

RevEvs · Feb 10, 2006, 08:32 AM

****

RevEvs · Feb 10, 2006, 08:33 AM

heh - well now we have to find out what else is censored

tooki · Feb 10, 2006, 09:30 AM

tittle [sic] fixed

tooki

tooki · Feb 10, 2006, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by RevEvs

heh - well now we have to find out what else is censored

I could cut and paste in the whole list, but then all you'd see is a sea of asterisks!

Seriously, the censorship list contains swear words, vulgarities, the names of some common web images that we don't want shown (you'd agree), and the URLs of free iPod sites and the like.

tooki

normdzn · Feb 10, 2006, 10:44 AM

Hi Y'all,

I am glad that my thread title has been amusing to y'all because I am here to entertain but now back to my question!

normdzn · Feb 10, 2006, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Detrius

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...short+username

Thanks for the info, this is a great resource and it's great to chat with fellow "mac freaks". Though, I think I will live with my current short name and just plug in something into the headphone jack. The solutions are just a bit too "techy" for me. Thanks anyway.

slugslugslug · Feb 11, 2006, 02:21 PM

Well, if you look at the page Detrius linked to, the first post contains a link to a GUI app to change the short name. So it becomes a not-incredibly-techy project. It's still a bit scary, since the documentation that comes with said app contains many all-caps warnings about how it's unsupported and could totally hose your Mac. I keep thinking about using it for my girlfriend's account on my PowerBook (she took over a more generic anybody-but-me user), but it's scary.

The solution for startup sound volume is really not that bad, though. Just double-click the .pkg and it'll show up in your System Preferences. Drag it out of /Library/PrefPanes to uninstall if you don't like it..