How do I change computer name?

My HD crashed on my IMAC OS X 10.6.8 and when they put a new HD in, they gave it a user name I didn't want. How do I change it?

I just realized that the data I thought was not available is actually on one of the user accounts, not the admin account. So I populated as much of files I could copy from other sources but am still lacking files from my time machine backup. How can I populate a none admin user with selective files from time machine? Can I switch the admin account & delete all but one user? Once I've downloaded everything from time machine, I will then use it to backup my new HD. I assume that's not a problem but I want to make sure I have nothing left on the current tome machine backup. Hope that makes sense. Thanks

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