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Thread: Changing administrator user name in Windows 7

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    Changing administrator user name in Windows 7

    I just was gifted a practically new laptop and I can't change the name from the previous owner to my own in C:/Users/(Previous Owner). I don't want to do a clean install nor just set up a new user's account (and you can't copy administrator account to administrator account, for some reason) because there's some software involved that I'd lose.

    I've heard I could just go through the registry and find all instances of (Previous Owner)'s name and change them to mine there - will that actually work? Or am I just stuck with (Previous Owner)'s name as the "Owner" from now on?

    Or does anyone know of a program that will do this for me?

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    Re: Changing administrator user name in Windows 7

    Hi friend, as i can see this is your very first post, i should Welcome you to Techarena Community. I would also like to suggest you to search the forums internally before starting any new query. Just to avoid Duplication or MODs may delete the posts. Anyways, there are many threads available for the same. You can simply follow few simple steps mentioned in the following thread to change the user name of your Admin account in windows 7:
    Change the username in Windows 7

    For more help on the same, just go through these threads:
    How To Change The Administrator Account Name IN Windows 7 premium
    unable to change my administrator account in windows 7

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