Windows 10 change admin user folder name free download

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Right-click the Start menu and open Command Prompt (Admin). Then cd C:\Users and mklink /D newname oldname. Once you’ve rebooted and ensured. replace.me › en-us › windows › forum › all › how-do-i-chang.
 
 

 

Windows 10 change admin user folder name free download. How do I change the name of my administrator user folder in Windows 10?

 

Joshua May 31, pm. Hello, I followed the steps and all went fine. Recently I needed to download the IDE Eclipse for coding purposes, but when trying to install, it gives me some errors that show the old username folder that I renamed. How can I completly delete the old username? Lakonst June 1, am. Billy June 10, pm. My laptop and girlfriends laptop both had this issue and brother it worked easy peazy japaneazy! Thank you so much! David Oluwagbemi June 22, am. You deserve an award just for this article.

Thank You! Very articulate. Thank you so much. The article is described clearly. I have followed the same steps and rename the user successfully. Everything works as expected. Thanks for your support. Lakonst July 13, pm. VV July 17, pm. Lakonst July 18, am.

Monatosh Barman August 23, pm. Initially, I had been searching in youtube for changing the user folder’s name but unfortunately didnt work out.. And finally now your steps have helped me fixing my very problem.. Joy August 27, pm. I followed your instructions, and it worked in changing the profile name.

It also created a new profile folder with the new profile name. I right click the TEMP folder to delete it, but is it says, “The action can’t be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program.

Lakonst August 28, pm. Right click on “My PC” computer icon and select Properties. Click at ‘Advanced system settings’ on the left. At ‘Advanced’ tab click Settings at ‘User Profiles’ section. Select the Temporary profile and hit Delete.

Close all properties and Restart you PC 6. Avto September 9, pm. On step 4 my last user name was TK and Registry Finder finds another files with tk in them. What can I do? Lakonst September 10, am.

Avto September 10, am. Felipe May 27, am. Can I: — create another user with admin privileges; — logoff of my current user; — login in the new temporary user; — change username and folder of my “main” user and restart; — regedit and path edits when logged on my main user; — then, steps 4 and 5?

Sorry about my English and thank you! Lakonst May 28, am. I think you can do this, but i’ not sure. So, I suggest to follow the exact steps in this tutorial. Michael September 21, pm. Ahmed Kotb October 13, pm.

Bence November 6, am. Ashley January 24, am. All of my pictures are gone. Not in any other user folders I can find. They were there and now they are gone.

All of my babies pictures and videos, gone. Lakonst January 24, am. Florent March 3, pm. It went almost perfect. I can’t make the 5th step because I don’t have the admin rights… I don’t understand how but I probably made something wrong because my account with the new name is a guest account…. Before starting the procedure, my account was the administrator one. I tried to log to the admin account but my classical password is not working and I have no idea what it could be.

Lakonst March 4, pm. Adam March 14, pm. It mostly worked, but it complete killed my Start menu; clicking on it does nothing. Also, OneDrive is still trying to use the old folder name. That should be fixable but doing anything is kind of tricky without the Start menu. Lakonst March 15, pm. AlexPippo April 18, pm. Sanduni May 10, pm.

Sehaj May 13, pm. It worked really well for me. You have told the steps really well and complete :. Arcane June 2, pm. So I’m having a little trouble fixing the Registry. The name was previously “Tim”, and finding it in the registry finder also finds things related to “time”. Any way to fix this? Lakonst June 3, am. Good luck. This way is a little bit complicated, but you can try if you really want to rename a Windows 10 user folder. Then select the Administrator account that you created to log in.

Then you can open C drive on your computer and open Users folder. Right-click the target user folder and rename it. Then you can input the new user folder name at the end of the directory under Value data. Click OK to save the changes. Restart your computer to make the changes take effect.

Check: How to backup and restore Registry. I think you can do this, but i’ not sure. So, I suggest to follow the exact steps in this tutorial. Michael September 21, pm. Ahmed Kotb October 13, pm. Bence November 6, am. Ashley January 24, am. All of my pictures are gone. Not in any other user folders I can find.

They were there and now they are gone. All of my babies pictures and videos, gone. Lakonst January 24, am. Florent March 3, pm. It went almost perfect. I can’t make the 5th step because I don’t have the admin rights… I don’t understand how but I probably made something wrong because my account with the new name is a guest account…. Before starting the procedure, my account was the administrator one.

I tried to log to the admin account but my classical password is not working and I have no idea what it could be. Lakonst March 4, pm. Adam March 14, pm. It mostly worked, but it complete killed my Start menu; clicking on it does nothing. Also, OneDrive is still trying to use the old folder name.

That should be fixable but doing anything is kind of tricky without the Start menu. Lakonst March 15, pm. AlexPippo April 18, pm. Sanduni May 10, pm. Sehaj May 13, pm. It worked really well for me. You have told the steps really well and complete :. Arcane June 2, pm. So I’m having a little trouble fixing the Registry. The name was previously “Tim”, and finding it in the registry finder also finds things related to “time”. Any way to fix this?

Lakonst June 3, am. Good luck. Stef June 2, pm. I truly need help, as now clicking on links from an outside source e. Discord Doesn’t work anymore. Chrome is selected in “Web browser” section. Then click on “Choose default apps by file type” and select your web browser to open the ‘. Anold July 5, am. Someone told me that it is impossible to rename that folder.

Nevertheless, you helped me a lot. Thank you very much. I wish if you have whatsap group to help others out there with different scenarios. God bless you. John September 1, am. Hi Thanks for your advice. It worked for me. However I have a question.

When you used the name “John” should you have used “Josh” as a better example? As you were helping “Joshua” it was a bit off-putting seeing a different name thrown it to the mix. John” and click Find.

See Above. Lakonst September 2, pm. Eswaraiah September 12, pm. Boomaa March 2, pm. This worked for me. Thank you very much for this post cuz it took me about 6hours to find your post before working on the steps. Gurvinder Singh March 27, pm. Ron May 14, pm. Good instructions! However please update this article to include in Step 3 5, when the folder can’t be renamed due to it being opened by another program. If this problem occurs, Download LockHunter free to download btw from MalwareBytes to figure out what is locking the folder.

Hope this helps! Duong August 2, pm. Thank you for clear instruction. It worked well for me in Windows 7 except Dropbox needs to be reinstalled. Prince July 28, am.

Deni August 19, pm. It worked for my win8. There hasn’t been any problem with my pc so far and I hope I won’t. Clinton November 18, pm.

Eric May 1, am. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Menu. Step 1. But some people find that this only changes the user folder name, but not the user account name. If you search a file in the user folder, you will find that the user folder name in the directory is still the old one. To really change user account name in Windows 10 and rename the user folder, you can try Way 2.

Attention: Changing user folder name or editing the Registry is risky and may cause data loss. Do at your own risk. You can also create a system restore point to easily restore Windows 10 OS if something bad happens.

This way is a little bit complicated, but you can try if you really want to rename a Windows 10 user folder. Then select the Administrator account that you created to log in.