Windows 10: Easy Guide: How to Change Your User Account Profile Picture in Windows 10

In Windows 10, you can change or update your user profile picture. In this guide, we show you how.


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Easy Guide: Create a User Account and Change Privileges

This guide shows you how to create a new user account and change its user privileges.

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Easy Guide: How to Change Your Microsoft Account Name in Windows 10

If you sign into Windows 10 using your Microsoft Account email, editing your account name is not available from within the Settings interface. Users signing into Windows 10 using a Local Account, can still edit their account name using the following steps:

How to Change Your Account Name on Windows 10

In this article we, show you the steps for changing your account name under a Microsoft Account.

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Unable to change account picture, error: Account picture error, Setting the account picture failed

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As you are unable to change the profile picture on Windows 10, please do let us know how exactly you are trying to change it.

I suggest you to try the below and check if it helps to change the profile picture.

Steps:

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  Log-in with administrator account.
  
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  Go to system root drive on which
  Windows is installed currently, that is usually C: drive.
  
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  Click on View
  in the title bar, then check the Hidden items. Now click the
  ProgramData folder.
  
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  Navigate to Microsoft\User Account Pictures.
  
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  In the User Accounts Pictures folder, you’ll see the default user account pictures. You’ll just need to replace these pictures with your desired picture for user account.
  
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  Manipulate your desired image for user account picture in the same format and same size and
  replace the default ones.
  
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  Now reboot the system and you’ll be able to get your desired image as user account picture.
  

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue and required information, we will be happy to assist you further.