having trouble configuring system

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mayam

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I just bought a G4 Cube from someone with the Mac OSX 10.3.9 system on it. The home icon was named 'new user' as is the name of the computer. I spend endless hours setting up the desktop, configuring my e-mail acct, registering softwares, etc, etc, etc. When I had to shut down the computer bc I was moving items around my desk, I restarted the machine and everything I configured was gone.. all back to the default "new user". I am extremely frustrated!! what am I doing wrong? In the finder window -> system drive -> users - there is a network icon with my name on it. It has all of the files I transfered (ituns music, desktop items, etc) but why is the computer not restarting with the settings I gave it???
 
I'm not experienced with 10.3 but try going to the Users Preference Pane and click Login Options. You can define the Start Up User in the window that opens.

Hopefully it's the same as 10.4.X
 
I initially changed the accounts in the system preferences. Changed the admin and login info to my name... then I made all of the configurations. When starting up the computer, the appearance and everything else went back to default (the finder was logged in my name however and in the users folder there was a folder in my name with the user folders.. so the files are there.. it's just not saving them by default. And I can't log out and log back in as a new user....
 
mayam said:
I initially changed the accounts in the system preferences. Changed the admin and login info to my name... then I made all of the configurations. When starting up the computer, the appearance and everything else went back to default (the finder was logged in my name however and in the users folder there was a folder in my name with the user folders.. so the files are there.. it's just not saving them by default. And I can't log out and log back in as a new user....
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It appears that you did not take simbala's advice. At the bottom of the users' list in the Accounts preferences pane is Login Options.

Highlight the account that you want to open as default.

Double-click to open. You will have to authenticate with your password.

Click the Automatically log ins as: check box.

Select your account from the pop-up menu.

Enable any other options that you want.

Click the lock to save your changes.
 
I think that my problem is with renaming my computer. I did it wrong the first few times so when restarting it went back to the default and saved the settings (configurations) I made in a different user name and folder.

I've fixed the username and password to it's original. Now, how do I change the name of my computer? I can't seem to find the way in my system preferences (I am using 10.3.9)

thank you!
 
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