Windows 10: Windows 10 Update 1903 renamed User folder

After updating Windows 10 with cumulative Update 1903. Users/User is renamed Users/User.000 and the old folder Users/User remains with just a handful of files in it. This effectively disables Outlook, Dropbox and other applications. After reading about a few other folks with similar experiences, I was hopeful that I could fix the issue. I deleted Zune and also deleted the Zune files in the old version of my user folder. I am unable to roll back the 1903 update since it was performed way back on August 29th. Any ideas now? Can I now delete the old folder and rename the new one? I imagine that will just further aggravate the situation. Thanks!!

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Renaming the users folders

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

You are trying to rename the User folder, which can’t be done through the File explorer. Whatever user name you use of your User account, user account folder will have same name. You can rename the Subfolder of the User account folder but not User
account folder.

If you want rename the User account folder, change user account name using the suggestion

Lets’ refer to these steps to rename the User account and check if that helps.

• Press Windows and X keys together.
• Click on Control Panel, click on User Accounts.
• Click on User account, then click on “Change your account name”
• If it’s prompting for password please enter and click on Yes. If you do not have password click on
  Yes.
• Enter the new user name.
• Click on change name.

Reference link for more information.

Windows 8 User Folder Rename.

Windows 8 User Folder Rename



Please do let us know if you need further help.

 

Windows 10 Update 1903 renames User fiolder

After updating Windows 10 with Feature Update 1903

Users/User is renamed Users/User.000

and a new folder Users/User created with just a handful of files in it

So, for example, backup settings for Money are wrong.

How can this be fixed?

 

Windows 10 Update 1903 renames User fiolder

Hi David

My name is Andre Da Costa; an Independent Consultant, Windows Insider MVP and Windows & Devices for IT MVP. I'm here to help you with your problem.

You can follow the steps in the following article how to rename the User folder under C:\User

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/change-account...

See the section:

'What about Your User Folder Name?'

Information in the above link is sourced from a trusted Microsoft MVP blog.