Windows 10: Can't rename user folder after i changed my username on windows 10

So, basically, i just changed my username on my windows 10 PC because the old one contained a space in it and i guessed that i would have issues related to scripts relating that folder, and when i changed my username, the user folder was still the same, and it won't let me rename it, so can anyone please help me?

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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.

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How to change the username and username folder in windows 10

I recently purchased a new computer with Windows 10 installed. After syncing with my Microsoft account my User folder name had truncated to the first five characters of my email address, 'antho'. As I had no software and files loaded I thought it would
be a good time to attempt the change to my folder name. I had success following youssoufsawadogo's method. My exact steps were:

• As I was intending to make a change to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList I made a backup of this file first. This was done from Registry Editor by selecting the Key and File (from top menu bar) > Export. Note that
  the file path contains 'WindowsNT'. I looked for a Windows 10 version but there were none so I went with WindowNT.
• Open Settings>Accounts>Your Info>Sign In With a Local Account Instead. Enter password, then change username to what you want it to be, in my case 'Anthony'. As per youssoufsawadogo's instructions I didn't input a password and was able to click through
  without doing so. After doing that Windows signed out. Sign back in using the Local Account.
• Open Registry Editor.
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. See youssoufsawadogo's screen shot.
• Expand ProfileList folder. Search the files on the right under the Data column for something like C:\Users\antho where the last bit is the username you want to change.
• Double click/right click on ProfileImagePath and clear your name and replace it with the one you want, e.g. Anthony.
• Press OK and close the Registry Editor window.
• Go to C:\Users\. You should see folders including TEMP, Anthony (the name you want), antho (the name you want to change). Make sure you see TEMP. If not, restart the computer. Restart at this point was like you were starting Windows for the first time
  in that there was more behind the scenes activity.
• Delete Anthony (the name you just created).
• Rename antho (the name you want to change) folder to Anthony (the name you want). At this point, if you hadn't seen TEMP and restarted your computer in Step 8 (as was the case for me when I did it the first time), a dialogue box appears saying, "You Need
  To Provide Administrator Permission To Rename This Folder". I was able to click CONTINUE but then a second dialogue box appeared saying, "Action Can't Be Completed Because Folder Is Open In Another Program". I had to go back and restart my computer. Then
  I saw the TEMP folder in Step 8 and didn't get the dialogue boxes in Step 10.
• Restart computer.
• Verify that the username folder has changed to Anthony (the name you want).
• Go Settings>Accounts>Your Info and sign in with your normal Microsoft account.
• Verify that your normal computer settings have returned.

That's it. The TEMP file with size 0 bytes still remains in the Users folder. I deleted it with no harm done. I hope this helps.

 

How to change username under C:/Users/username folder?

Hello Advait,

The tutorial below can help show you how to rename your account's user profile folder.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-name-of-user-profile-folder-in-windows-11.2133/