Windows 10: How can I change my windows 10 pro log in name and users folder name ?

When the windows is loading up after restarting the pc and I need to type my pin number to log in above it the name of the pc is my email [email protected]
and in the C:\Users my user name folder is rhoda



I want to change rhoda to but when I click on rhoda it's making a short beep and if I make right click on it there is no rename option.



I also tried to go to the control panel > user accounts > user accounts and selected there the only account there is my account type admin but also there there is no option/s to change the name :



What I want to do is to change the log in name when starting the pc and windows load in the pin screen to
and also to change the name of the user in C:\Users from rhoda to

:)

 

Change User Name Folders

"The change the name on the Account folder is more difficult because it is more heavily protected. See this tutorial:https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/89060-chang..."

On this link, the details show renaming another account. I'm wanting to change the Admin account. It's a good thing I had another user setup on my computer, also as an Admin, because after changing the SID in step 8. And, unable to change the name in step
11. As "Rename" wasn't in the list. I restarted the computer, since the Admin user account name was changed I was unable to load windows. I had to log into my other account, which was setup as Admin and change the SID back to the 5 letters the user name was
titled.

My computer, Admin account, works again.

I wasn't wanting to just change another account user name, which this is possible to do. I wanted to change the main user, myself.

 

How can I change the name of the user folder in Windows 10

I read somewhere that it is impossible to change the user folder name without re-installing the OS.

-> This is correct. The reason is simple: The registry contains countless references to the name of user profile. Some of them were created by Microsoft software, some by third-party software. If you changed the name
of the profile folder (which is fairly easy) then these references would be invalid and your account would be crippled.

If I felt strongly about the name of my profile folder then I would do this:

• Create a spare admin account.
• Reboot and log into this account.
• Delete the problem account (but keep the user data!).
• Create a new local account with the desired name.

You will get a profile folder with the correct name. If desired then you can copy the personal files from the old to the new profile folder.

 

Need help with changing name of user profile folder

I would like to change the name of the user profile folder. I have found and tried a few methods including one from Microsoft forums. None of them worked. I kept getting something about my User needing to sign out and back in again that there was a problem, so I would sign out and back in again and it didn't work. I think the reason is because Windows created a TEMP user and would log me in under that so there would be a folder named C/User/TEMP and still the original named folder of C/User/myuserfolder.

I found this on the forums here: Change Name of User Profile Folder in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

The instructions are very similar to what I have tried. In the above post John W used safe mode. Do I need to go through all the steps again as listed in the post and then go into safe mode, or can I just use safe mode to change the folder name?

Also, are there newer instructions for how to do this with updates to Windows since the above thread was posted over a year ago?

Thanks in advance.