Never rename your Windows user account

#1

Post by tszyn » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 11:27 AM UTC

Never rename your Windows user account
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Re: Never rename your Windows user account

#2

Post by zelon88 » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 1:46 PM UTC

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.

Re: Never rename your Windows user account

#3

Post by Mup_TIpekpaceH » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 3:33 PM UTC

zelon88 wrote: post #2

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.

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

Re: Never rename your Windows user account

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Post by DarthNebo » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 3:59 PM UTC

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...

Re: Never rename your Windows user account

#5

Post by yetihehe » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:29 PM UTC

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".

Re: Never rename your Windows user account

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Post by majora2007 » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

zelon88 wrote: post #2

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.

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

Re: Never rename your Windows user account

#7

Post by tszyn » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 7:39 PM UTC

zelon88 wrote: post #2

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.

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...