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Changing "user" to first name?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Clovis, CA
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Hi all,
I recently had the hard drive changed out and when the technician reloaded the OS, he used no password and set the Finder to "user." I learned how to set a password by running Disc 1 of the operating CD's, but I don't know how to change "user" to my first name. Is there anyway to do it?
Do you guys use your first name, or what do you use?
The OS is 10.3
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashua NH, USA
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Go into the accounts control panel and create a new user with the name you want. Copy any files you want over. Then delete the 'user' account.
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Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I'm not sure a Leopard trick will work in Panther.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
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BLAZE_MkIV
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Thank you all very much.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Yeah, I vote for BLAZE_MkIV’s response if you haven’t had it back for too long. You should even be able to copy your preferences files from /Users/user/Library/Preferences to the corresponding location in your new “firstname” user folder, if you’ve been making customizations to a bunch of your applications.
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