Windows 10: Incorrect Username Appeared Today When I Logged In

went to login to my windows 10 laptop this morning and the wrong username has appeared.

I set up a windows 10 installation for a friend a few months ago and randomly their name has appeared when Ive gone to sign in along with their profile icon.

I have still logged in with my usual PIN and windows has not created another user profile

Im baffled by this and what to do

Thanks in advance

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Incorrect Username in Windows 10 User folder

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You may follow the steps suggested by
Sayan_Ghosh (replied on November 12, 2015) in the following threads and check if it helps



Windows 10 incorrect username in C:\Users\xxx


Windows 10 incorrect username in C:\Users\xxx



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Username or password incorrect


I've previously run netplwiz from the command prompt to disable the sign in process in Windows 10.




Which worked fine in build 10049 but in 10158 & 10166 I now get this error message





I don't understand how this message can appear as no password has been entered at this stage.
Pressing OK, or waiting 2 minutes results in this screen





Entering the PIN or password from the sign-in option continues the login process.
Apart from starting again from scratch, any ideas on how to correct this.

 

Strange variation on The username or password is incorrect"

I recently changed my computer's name and now get "The username or password is incorrect" on startup.

Note that if I change the name back to the earlier name the problem goes away, so the name changing appears to be the cause.


More detail:-

With the new name, when I startup I see the welcome screen for a moment and then the error message appears together with an OK button. When I click OK, there are two instances of my name in the bottom left corner of the screen; it wants to sign in with a new "unwanted" one. If I select the "normal" one I can then enter my password and will be logged in with my Microsoft account credentials. But note that I haven't needed to do this until now as I have de-selected "Users must enter...." in netplwiz.

If I select the "unwanted" one I can sign in with my Microsoft account credentials which only achieves the same as the normal one with the extra requirement of needing to type my email address as well as my password.

Obviously, I want to be able to bypass this step altogether as my use of netplwiz demonstrates.


I have tried all the solutions I have found in sites like
https://www.askvg.com/windows-10-fix...after-restart/
and am now totally at a loss.

I'd be very grateful if anyone is able to help.