Comments on: Change Your Computer Name in Windows 7 or Vista

By: Box293

Box293 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:23:02 +0000

Fix Reminders – error

I came across this error after syspreping a Windows 2008 server (basically changing the computer name), Fix will also apply to Vista

• Open windows explorer
• Browse to C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\WindowsCalendar\
• Select Reminders –
• Right click Reminders – and select Delete
• Click Yes to delete the task
• Close windows Explorer
• Open Task Scheduler
• Error should not appear

NOTE: There might be more than one Reminders – task that needs deleting

By: tas

tas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:17:26 +0000

I made a limited user account on my laptop then signed into it. But when I tried to sign into my administrator account I couldn’t remember its name. Is there anyway I can recover that name from the limited account?

By: angie

angie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:33:06 +0000

ive deleted something and now i cant log onto my account as administrator……….everytime i click my account it says bad something and wont log me on……..can u help

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:45:48 +0000

Wow jennifer it really worked for me thanks!!! i wanted this solution so much

By: S....

S.... — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:00:03 +0000

i tried regedit wd both the solutns, i have tried control panel optn, i have tried that control passwords2 option….still my laptop shows C:/Users/OLDNAME/……
someone has the ans to this????
in c folder under users folder my laptop has 3 files one with the old name, 1 wd the new name and 1 named public….i think changing the old name here will hwlp solve my problem. any one knows how to do tat????

badly waiting for solutions!!!!!

By: Ss

Ss — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:05:19 +0000

hi i have tried al the above mentioned ways to change the computer name bt now it shows ny name and the other name too. it is really irritating for mr, plz plz plz help me, how to make my comp name to ONLY MY NAME>>>>>

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:11:57 +0000

thank you for this topic, big help to me

By: Rach

Rach — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:11:23 +0000

I bought a floor model from Office Depot. Great deal-I hope. I am unable to login as an administrator as they have themselves set up as the admin with a password-that unfortunately I do not have. Any suggestions??

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:27:03 +0000

I’ve changed my name on the whole hkey_current thing and now it just made a folder with my name but the original is still there!! and now everything is my name/original name WTF!

By: mrwokk

mrwokk — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:35:54 +0000

SOLUTION TO THE USER NAME/VALUE NAME. there are three problems which people mentioned in this forum. changing the account name is easy, go to control panel, then user accounts, then just figure it out. changing the name of the computer is in system and maintenance, then system, then change. and the MAIN PROBLEM people are having, the easiest way to fix it is by opening run which is in the start menu. some people dont have it there by default. if so, right click the start button, click properties, customize, and scroll almost to the bottom of that list. once you’ve added it, open it, type in REGEDIT. then follow:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
after pressing current version, it will say Registeredowner on the RIGHT. take it from there. the other war is by following HKEY_CURRENT_USER\VOLATILE ENVIRONMENT.