How To Change Your User Name On Tom's Hardware

[godbrother]

Well, the story is, I once upon a time created a temporary account ^^ to ask a question and then run away, but for some strange reason, I find myself logging on here every single day/night to ask/answer questions. (addicted?)

I was just wondering if its possible to change my log-on user name.

Thanks.

 

[justinblue]

Hi,

There is no way for you to do this. If you have a compelling reason (ie extraordinary), I can do it for you. However, for obvious reasons, I don't want to get into the habit of changing people's user names just on their whim. Its a manual process for me.

Justin

 

[godbrother]

Hi,

There is no way for you to do this. If you have a compelling reason (ie extraordinary), I can do it for you. However, for obvious reasons, I don't want to get into the habit of changing people's user names just on their whim. Its a manual process for me.

Justin

It's a pretty lame username, that I had no intention of useing. I was so pee'd off that the usernames I was trying where not working, I just typed this out. With a 1. I think you need to go into MySQL or somthing and edit the name out, it may be a bit long, but if you can, I would really appriciate it.

Regards.

 

[justinblue]

Hey,

What is the name you want instead?

Justin

 

[amdfangirl]

Hey Justin,

Just curious, if you do get your name changed, do all posts still refer to the correct account? Do you keep post count etc.?

 

[justinblue]

Hey,

I have no idea.

Justin

 

[godbrother]

Hey,

What is the name you want instead?

Justin

Hi, it's "Godbrother"

Thanks.

 

[godbrother]

Hey Justin,

Just curious, if you do get your name changed, do all posts still refer to the correct account? Do you keep post count etc.?

Hi, yes it should do, it keeps the same user ID, just the apearing name changes. Well, at least on most forum software it is. Not sure what Tom's uses.

 

[amdfangirl]

Tom's uses MyDiscussions I think.

 

[randomizer]

I thought that the username was the ID with this software, which is why it was a pain to change. If that is the case, then changes to it would need to cascade update the database to make sure all prior posts were accounted for and each would need to be re-assigned an author accordingly.

 

[amdfangirl]

When I got banned, it was such a pain, all my post ever, got removed.

 

[justinblue]

Hello,

I have changed it.

Justin

 

[randomizer]

Well it seems to have worked pretty well

 

[amdfangirl]

Much better than I thought too!

 

[justinblue]

Hi,

Yeah, but I don't know if it moved all his badges/etc.

Justin

 

[randomizer]

Well he's got one. I don't know how many he already had.

 

[godbrother]

Hello,

I have changed it.

Justin

Jesus Christ! I was going ape ***!! You should have told me post to doing it, I sat there for 2 hours trying every possible password to the account. Apparently the user name changed I clocked onto the fact after I remembered.

Blah, thanks by the way, for the name change.