Renaming user profile name
- Thread starter calcu007
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OldGrayGary
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- Jan 25, 2013
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Hi calcu007 ... and welcome to the forums
There are various ways to fix the naming problems in Windows 10. Since you've just reformatted and reinstalled, it might seem crazy to suggest doing that again --- but it is the safest route for having your Windows Store programs work properly, and for you to see the right name at login and the right name on your user folder. The steps are: 1) Install Windows 10, using the "local account" option. 2) After the installation is completely finished, and has restarted several times.... check that your user folder and sign in name are just the way you like them, then visit Start > Settings > Accounts > sign in with Microsoft account (or "connect to a Microsoft account"). The user folder will remain unchanged.
If you want to try other various methods for renaming the user folder ... these carry risks & caveats - so make backups first. The Windows Store, in particular can be a bit crazy when things go sideways. All the user installed programs might need to be reinstalled, since some Registry entries would still point to the older folder name....in fact, heck - let's not go there. Since yours is such a recent reinstall, try it again, with a local account first.
There are various ways to fix the naming problems in Windows 10. Since you've just reformatted and reinstalled, it might seem crazy to suggest doing that again --- but it is the safest route for having your Windows Store programs work properly, and for you to see the right name at login and the right name on your user folder. The steps are: 1) Install Windows 10, using the "local account" option. 2) After the installation is completely finished, and has restarted several times.... check that your user folder and sign in name are just the way you like them, then visit Start > Settings > Accounts > sign in with Microsoft account (or "connect to a Microsoft account"). The user folder will remain unchanged.
If you want to try other various methods for renaming the user folder ... these carry risks & caveats - so make backups first. The Windows Store, in particular can be a bit crazy when things go sideways. All the user installed programs might need to be reinstalled, since some Registry entries would still point to the older folder name....in fact, heck - let's not go there. Since yours is such a recent reinstall, try it again, with a local account first.
Well, I can't resinstall because my computer was repaired and formatted by a technichian. I dont want to risk to make a mess reinstalling. My login name is correct, the problem is in the users folder. My name appears as alexi000 not as Alexis, like previous formatting. I want to change it to Alexis. I tried to changed in user accounts manager but there is not a option to rename the profile
Hi calcu007. :smile9:
Yes, you can rename your profile.
By the way, the user account folder (c:\users\alexi000) won't be changed (to c:\users\alexis) with this method.
A workaround could be to create a new profile named Alexis, log into the new account, then import data from the "bad" account to the new one from Control Panel\System and Security\System, click advanced system settings, click (user profiles) settings, select the "bad" account, click copy to, select your new account (and start the copy clicking ok/copy/save/whatever button appears to confirm the task).
However I agree with OldGrayGary: before you try the workaround, if are not happy with the first method, make a backup!
Yes, you can rename your profile.
By the way, the user account folder (c:\users\alexi000) won't be changed (to c:\users\alexis) with this method.
- This will open the user accounts window.
Right-click on windows start, click on run, type (or copy-paste) control userpasswords2, press enter on your keyboard. - In the new window, (if it's not already ticked) tick the checkbox users must enter a username and password to use this computer., enlight(?)/select your profile, click properties.
- In the new window, you can change the username (windows environment variable), the full name and its description.
A workaround could be to create a new profile named Alexis, log into the new account, then import data from the "bad" account to the new one from Control Panel\System and Security\System, click advanced system settings, click (user profiles) settings, select the "bad" account, click copy to, select your new account (and start the copy clicking ok/copy/save/whatever button appears to confirm the task).
However I agree with OldGrayGary: before you try the workaround, if are not happy with the first method, make a backup!
That's for I wrote the workaround under it. :)
OldGrayGary
Visiting Expert
- Jan 25, 2013
- 599
Hi all -
calcu007 .... xilolee's workaround method has you create a new profile (which creates a new user folder), and then you copy things from the misnamed profile (with the extra 000 in it) to your new profile. If you didn't install any programs yet, it should work very nicely. If you have installed a lot of programs using the old profile, you might want to re-install them afterwards (it all depends on how the programs installed... you might not have to reinstall anything, if you're lucky). The name of the user folder does change (won't have the 000 like the older) in the workaround method (I think ... I have yet to need to try this yet).
1 TB External USB hard drives are selling for under $50 (USD) here in Southern California. Handy little things to have around ... you could back up everything on your system before trying any changes (and it shouldn't take long if you have a USB 3.0 port and a USB 3.0 external).
Cheers
calcu007 .... xilolee's workaround method has you create a new profile (which creates a new user folder), and then you copy things from the misnamed profile (with the extra 000 in it) to your new profile. If you didn't install any programs yet, it should work very nicely. If you have installed a lot of programs using the old profile, you might want to re-install them afterwards (it all depends on how the programs installed... you might not have to reinstall anything, if you're lucky). The name of the user folder does change (won't have the 000 like the older) in the workaround method (I think ... I have yet to need to try this yet).
1 TB External USB hard drives are selling for under $50 (USD) here in Southern California. Handy little things to have around ... you could back up everything on your system before trying any changes (and it shouldn't take long if you have a USB 3.0 port and a USB 3.0 external).
Cheers
FreeBooter
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Boot Windows into a administrator account that is not the user account that you want to rename the user profile folder name and open the C:\Users and rename your user profile folder name and open the registry editor by typing regedit into Start Menu search box and navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows NT --> Current Version --> Profile List" and click each subkey to find the key associated with user profile folder you want to rename the ProfileImagePath value data will have the user profile path and name, change the name to match the same name of the your user profile folder you renamed. Reboot computer to make changes. You can enable build in Administrator account to rename your user account profile folder name open Command Prompt as a administrator and type Net user administrator /active:yes press Enter key. After you finnish with Administrator account disable it by typing Net user administrator /active:No command. Make sure to create system restore point before making any changes also if you don't have Windows 10 setup media create a Repair Disk.
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