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microsoft account to local account on 2 desktops and 'whoami' differs
folks,
i bought 2 refurbushed thinkcentre desktops with win10 pro and set them up and they defaulted to microsoft account logins.
i converted 1 desktop to local account, worked perfect, c:\Users indicates the local account username,
- and if i issue cmd {and run as administrator}, the prompt is c:\windows\systme32>whoami i get 8-srvr\ron; if i issue cmd {but do not run as administrator}, the prompt is c:\Users\ron>whoami i get 8-srvr\ron. THIS IS GOOD
i converted (tried) 1 desktop to local account, half-worked, 'Settings\YourInfo indicates 'ron' as local account + administrator, but the login stayed as microsoft account login with pin AND c:\Users shows the 5character pseudonym of the microsoft account email.
- and if i issue cmd {and run as administrator}, i again get the prompt as c:\windows\systme32>whoami i get 7-srvr\ron; if i issue cmd {but do not run as administrator}, the prompt is c:\Users\rlo03 (the 5character pseudonym)>whoami i get 7-srvr\ron. THIS IS 1/2 GOOD.
-i have a local account with a microsoft account login, and my c:\Users remains under 'rlo03' and not 'ron'.
i would like to remove the miscrosoft account login, drop the microsoft account email reference and convert the c:\Users\rlo03 to c:\Users\ron using the procedure that references the SID to do the renaming in the registry.
the question is ...where do i start... so i do not lose all the stuff in documents/downloads/etc/etc that i put in the 2nd desktop already?
i believe i see how to do it, but not quite the safest place to pick up the string and start the process.
any suggestions would be helpful, thanks, ron