[spida dula]

Well, I was using 3Ds max and was abt to save a file on desktop ... i accidentally clicked onsomething and typed in "teapot" .............. and so this folder got named "tea" instead.

This folder as all of u know contains the Documents, Pictures, Music and other folders made by default. Ther is no rename option and system restore doesnt seem to work

Please help me .. my account username is fine and i tried changinfg that too .. nuthing happens

[huggie54]

hiya buddy not sure if this will work but give it a shot,go to Contol panel>Personalization,click on Change desktop icons highlight the user folder(yours should be Tea) then click on Restore Default,it may put the name back good luck mate,will keep searching if that does not work

[kenny111111]

if that don't work, change your user name (i just did it so i know it works)

start click the little picture (above username) then click "change account name" may take a reboot to take affect!!

[spida dula]

Hi huggiee and kenny .. thanks .. i tried both ur suggestions

But that didnt work .. what surprises me is that this happened when i was looking away fro the screen (i type while looking at the keyboard) and now im unable to revert it back ... there must be a way ..

[kenny111111]

hello
I changed my name and changed it back, works on my laptop (vista home premium) need to reboot for the affect!
I don't have UAC enabled (don't know if that matters)....good luck

[spida dula]

Hi kenny .. my UAC is disabled and i have mentioned before that i tried changing my username ... although it should affect the folder name .. but in this case its not working ... and yes i did reboot many times. I am suspecting that this has sumthing to with the registry

[kenny111111]

hello
have a look ...HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Volatile Environment

click on it see what it says... (back up the registry) then right click on each one in the right pane and modify the name to whatever you want.... very important to back up first,(create a restore point) good luck...

[spida dula]

nope .. all of the registries in "Volatile Environment" have data values like "toshiba" and my username .. i cant find anything called tea there ... however i did a small search (keywords: tea) in the registry editor and found a registry with a data value "tea" .... i renamed it to my username ... i was hoping that this would take effect after a reboot but nothing seemed to have changed

[kenny111111]

here is a picture of mine, no mention of "acer" ... thats wierd...you haven't used a registry "cleaner" have you?

[spida dula]

Hey thx Kenny for all ur effort to help me ... I ve finally solved my problem ... while searching in the reg editor i found another registry with the address

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID \{59031A47-3F72-44A7-89C5-5595FE6B30EE}"


the data value was "tea" i changed it to my username and rebooted .. it worked !! yaaaaaaaaaaay !!!

[spida dula]

But whats strange is how it got changed so easily and it took me so many days to revert it back.. i d love to know the shortcut .. its still a mystery to me

[kenny111111]

congrats glad you got it sorted!!!