Never rename your Windows user account

zelon88 4y ago ↗

The correct way to do this is to create a new user with lusrmgr.msc and then use the User Profiles dialog "Copy To..." feature to copy the old profile to the new profile.

Mup_TIpekpaceH 4y ago ↗

wow)) didn't know there is such functionality. Thanks

majora2007 4y ago ↗

Damn I could have used this a while ago. Now my user profile is all messed up and mispelled. Oh well.

tszyn 4y ago ↗

Apparently, "Copy To" no longer works on Windows 7 and higher. The button is greyed out for all user profiles except the "Default" profile. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e4cd5a0c-b...

DarthNebo 4y ago ↗

Did this once for macOS & never got VLC to work properly again since it kept caching the older username in some location & it was now unable to access some property...

yetihehe 4y ago ↗

Also, don't use spaces and don't use any special characters, only "[0-9a-z_-]". Diacritic characters in polish are handled wrong by so many apps, which is a shame, because "user" in polish is "użytkownik".

Never rename your Windows user account (blog.szynalski.com)

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