I tried doing that when my Powerbook was taken over by my wife, no joy. The only way I finally did it was by doing a clean install of OS X. Gerhard On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:10 PM, James Nyers wrote: > hello, i would like to change the short name on my administer account > how can i do that? this is the only account. on my macbook thanks > > Jim ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------