Generally you shouldn't change the short name. Your best bet would be to create a new admin user, then delete the old one. Even better, on a used machine, I'd wipe teh drive and reinstall everything... For your safety and the previous owner's, since you never know what is lurking on that hard drive. Allan On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Noel Westerlind wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:20:32 -0500 > From: Noel Westerlind <noelwest at mac.com> > Reply-To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Subject: [CUBE] How do you change > > I just got a cube and the Short name is locked on the > Accounts screen. How do I change it? Its locked (grayed out) > I did change the Name, but the short name is locked. > Thanks for your help. > Thank you, > Noel Westerlind > > > ----------