Windows 10: Windows recovery after renaming C Drive users folder name

Hello people,I need help to find a way to restore my system to previous settings. Here is the story - I updated my windows 10 to windows 11 OS and then I thought of renaming the folder name under C drive users folder. In windows 10 MS gets the first five letters from login email address. So I wanted to update it to full name and in that process, I opened the registry editor Run as administrator and updated the name in the following path. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. I clicked on the ProfleList and updated the 5 letters to the name I want and the

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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.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...r-rename/3364a356-bf93-4e5c-8fcb-67850e837d6b



Please do let us know if you need further help.

 

I need to change or Rename the folder C:\Users\<name> to C:\Users\<Mywish> . I'm using Windows 10 Home

Please Give me the details to rename the users name in C drive to my wish. Currently I only have one user and I have admin privileges.

What steps I need to follow. ?

 

Renaming C:\Users\<user>, then saving to it

Windows will not let you rename your own profile folder while you are logged on.

What exactly did you do, and why?