• Need to merge two user accounts on Win7
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Sometime back in December, my 6 year old PC suffered a terrible fate - its hard drive failed. Only just recently did we manage to get the chance to bring it in and get it looked at. The repair guy confirmed that the hard drive was at its last legs, running at only 5%. He put in a new hard drive and installed Windows 7 with some programs onto it. We paid the good man and, today, we finally re-setup the PC. However, two weeks or so before the hard drive suffered a blue attack, I managed to get a backup going for it, saving the user data. I had noticed that the user name on the PC was different from the one we had pre-failure, so I tried changing it to the original name, but the name change only went skin deep, not changing the user name used for the files. So when I restored my backup just now, it created a completely new user, named just as it was before it failed. If anyone here knows how I can merge two user accounts on Windows 7, please tell me. I would appreciate it immensely.
I'm not sure on this but I think merging users isn't possible because of the way the user accounts are set up. The best think you could do imo is just back the data up that you can access like files, faves etc and then just throw the rest out. But again maybe it is possible, I don't know.
Alright, seems as though I didn't actually create a new user account, rather the restore just dumped everything where it should be - which is why the folder that had the same name as my user before the failure. So, I just copied over everything that the backup had restored over to this new user and deleted the folder. I ended up overwriting the files on the new user that the backup had, so things like my Firefox history from today are gone and replaced with those from before the failure. I still can't rename the user proper, but I can try and figure that out myself.
Just create a new user in control panel with the name you want then restore the backup to that.
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