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[Mainer82]

I have a Google account that I use for web history, analytics and webmaster tools. I sign into that account with my Hotmail emaill address. I am setting up a service that requires a gmail account; I do not have a gmail product on this account, so when I click on gmail, it shows: Your new address: jkotest2@gmail.com. I do not want to use jkotest2, I'm not sure how to change this. Any advice?

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[Detection]

My Google account shows my name, have you added a name ? ie. First and surname etc

[Mainer82]

First and last name is there. Was your account set up initially with a non-gmail account like mine?

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Mainer82, on 06 October 2012 - 15:41, said:

First and last name is there. Was your account set up initially with a non-gmail account like mine?

You're stuck with it, I had the same problem. If you had a non-gmail account then added gmail, you can't remove it.

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Mainer82, on 06 October 2012 - 15:41, said:

First and last name is there. Was your account set up initially with a non-gmail account like mine?

Nope, iirc it was always a gmail account, but depending on what I sign into that uses that email address, it mostly shows my name, but occasionally the first part of my email address instead and when it does that, it changes it on everything and I have to go into something like gtalk and change it back

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Wait, is the problem the gmail address or the username?

[Mainer82]

The problem is that I'd like to change the username jkotest2 to something else, so that when I do try to create a gmail account under this account, it won't be jkotest2@gmail.com.

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Where'd it get jkotest2 from?

[Mainer82]

I think a few years ago I put that in there not knowing what it is, now I cannot change it.

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Mainer82, on 06 October 2012 - 15:56, said:

I think a few years ago I put that in there not knowing what it is, now I cannot change it.

Is it taking that from the hotmail address / username ?

Can you change it in hotmail and see if it changes in gmail ?

[Mainer82]

It's not the hotmail address or user name, it's my intials.

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Detection, on 06 October 2012 - 15:57, said:

Is it taking that from the hotmail address / username ?

Can you change it in hotmail and see if it changes in gmail ?

Doubt it'd change it.

See if theres any username change sort of thing, and look for that username everywhere.
If theres an option for it, delete the gmail without deleting the google account?

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Mainer82, on 06 October 2012 - 15:58, said:

It's not the hotmail address or user name, it's my intials.

And where do you have your initials set in either email address ?

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See your screenshot?
Click "Products" on the left.
Next to the heading "Your Products", click "edit".
Under the heading "Delete a Product" click "Remove gmail permanently".
See if you can assign a different username.

[Mainer82]

I don't have a gmail "product" on this account. My intials are not set anywhere that I can find other than the screen shot.