Windows 10: Windows 10 shortened my name to make my Users dir

Hi all,
I just installed build 10162 clean on my desktop. All went well. I found NVidia drivers and installed without issue.
I noticed, however, that windows created my Users dir as 'C:\Users\darre' when my name is correctly shown in the control panel and account info ('Darrel'). Is this normal for Win 10? I can't seem to rename it (access denied).

I do a lot of work from the command line so it will be noticeable to me.

Thanks,
-darrel

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account name and folder name gets limited to 5 characters

Hello,

my user name is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. In my windows 10 system, the user name of folder automatically gets shortened to C:\Users\creat

How to change this to creativity, for example C:\Users\creativity

 

Windows 10 user name shortened.

Thank you. I did do fresh install, did not use my Microsoft account, just created a local user.

Then associated the PC with my Microsoft account.

Again, thank you very much.

 

If you're doing work from the command line, just use the %HOMEPATH% environment variable, and then you never have to worry about what your name is... The bonus is that your scripts will now work for any username.

But to answer your question, if you create an account with your MSA account, then yes. This is what it does. To work around it, you can create a local account, then switch it to an MSA.

 

Thank you, that was exactly what was needed.

-darrel