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DaveSpear
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I am curious about how Win10 Home deals with / creates / manages user accounts. I have a client, a non-profit org, whose current treasurer is interested in donating her laptop to the organization - it's got accounting software, database file, etc. When I picked it up, it only had a single (non-hidden) user account, which used the (personal) Microsoft account of the user. I finally figured out that "Stop signing in to Microsoft apps automatically" equated to another field called "Login using local account instead" which was missing from my User Account panel in Settings. My question(s) are related to what the actual user account name is and how one goes about changing it. When I look at Accounts in Settings I see two accounts. One I created (Auxiliary) and one is the original account (Erin):
But when I look at NETPLWIZ, I see 4 acccounts: Auxiliary (which I created), Erin1 (which is KIND of like Erin but, ah, not the same), a hidden user (HomeGroupUser$) and a Microsoft account (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***).
When I run "net user" from the command line I see different accounts yet again - Auxiliary and Erin1 (but no Erin), plus a couple of other standard Windows accounts (Guest, WDAGUtilityAccount, DefaultAccount):
So, I'm a bit confused. I'd like to change the name of the Erin account and just nuke the microsoft account info from this profile. But, is the name of the account Erin or Erin1? What's the proper way to change it? I'm an old UNIX guy so am really biased against MS GUI tools, for reasons like the above - really ambiguous and conflicting info. Is there a "really good reason" why this confusing mess exists? I would normally use "wmic UserAccount" to change name from command line.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Dave
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But when I look at NETPLWIZ, I see 4 acccounts: Auxiliary (which I created), Erin1 (which is KIND of like Erin but, ah, not the same), a hidden user (HomeGroupUser$) and a Microsoft account (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***).
When I run "net user" from the command line I see different accounts yet again - Auxiliary and Erin1 (but no Erin), plus a couple of other standard Windows accounts (Guest, WDAGUtilityAccount, DefaultAccount):
So, I'm a bit confused. I'd like to change the name of the Erin account and just nuke the microsoft account info from this profile. But, is the name of the account Erin or Erin1? What's the proper way to change it? I'm an old UNIX guy so am really biased against MS GUI tools, for reasons like the above - really ambiguous and conflicting info. Is there a "really good reason" why this confusing mess exists? I would normally use "wmic UserAccount" to change name from command line.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Dave
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