Resolved New to me laptop -- user issues

I have picked up a used Lenova ThinkPad that is running on XP Pro. It was a work unit that was used by several people.

One of them set up a user in the name of his kid. When I loaded my Office 2003 software on it, it loaded under the kid's name even though I had gone into the Administrator Tools and changed that user name. So when I look at it using Admin Tools it shows my name, but when I right click and do Explore All it shows the kid's name but not my name.

And when I click Help/About it shows the software as registered to the rug rat.

My first question: How can I change that name on the system tree (C:\) ?

Next, the Office 2003 software seems to have installed fine and when I imported my contacts they loaded into the Contacts folder no problem.

However, when I click New to draft a new email and then click TO to choose a recipient, the selection window opens and is empty.

Where are the contacts?

I suspect it is a file location issue in the set up but I can find it and correct it using options.

Any insight into these two issues will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Rick

Note: I used edit to try and explain it better. Whiskeyman, I'll check on that recovery partition in the morning. Thanks.

 

If it still has the Rescue and Recovery partition I would make the required CD/DVDs to do a fresh install. Once done download and install all updates including SP3. You can also go to Lenovo's site and see if there are any updated drivers. I picked up a couple of used Thinkpads and did fresh installs on both. It made a big difference on how they ran.