Name the account and switch to Administrator before you click on Create Account. Select Add or Remove user accounts from the options and click the Create a new account link. If you have a secondary standard account you can temporarily promote the account to administrator for the process.Ĭlick on Start, then Control Panel. If you only have one account you need to create on first that you can delete again after you have made all the changes. You cannot use the account that you want to change the user name for. You need to create a new administrator account to execute all the commands. You will also lose your current theme which you should backup as well if you want to continue using it. You can use a program like System Restore Manager to create a new system restore point, or one of the backup software programs in our overview for the backup. It is recommended to create a backup or at least a system restore point before you start the process, as it requires some basic Registry hacking.
Please note that the old user name will still be used by some Windows Tools, permissions come to mind. Here is a step by step guide on how to change a user's name and profile folder name under Windows 7. So what can you do if you want to change both the account user name and the folder name of the user profile?
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