User Profile Folder - Change User Account Folder Name

Brink said:

Hello Escher, and welcome to Seven Forums.

See if going through the steps again, but this time setting them back to their default location, may help. :)

Nope, didn't work. I changed everything back to what it was before, and the account is still not available on my Welcome screen. Again, all the files and even the stuff I had on my desktop can still be viewed through Windows Explorer, but they're not accessible via a user account. There has to be a way to get the account back, but I don't know how to unless I have to use a restore point.

Brink said:

Using a restore point dated before doing this seems like the only way.

I did a system restore I got my account back! However, it said that it did not restore successfully for unspecified reasons. I got the error code 0xc0000022. Then my computer crashed (blue-screen error) and restarted. So, I looked up the code and many forums told me to do some sort of scan with Command Prompt, which I did. The prompt then told me that the scan found a corrupted file which it would fix. After the scan, I did another system restore. However, I got the same error message again and my computer shut off for some reason.

Is this something that needs to be fixed, or can I ignore it since I got my account back?

Brink said:

Are you still crashing or getting an error at startup?

If not, then you should be fine.

Okay, thanks. However, I still want to change my folder name to something else. I don't want to create a new account and move everything over unless I can move literally everything (my appdata, internet search stuff, desktop shortcuts, etc.). How should I do this?

Thanks for that guide. You laid everything out very carefully so I was never in doubt about what I was doing.

Really grateful to people like you who do not think that sharing helpful information is beneath them

Hi,

I followed your guide and it worked perfectly, except for the fact that documents in Microsoft Office 2013 cannot be opened because they are in the old name's files. How do I change this ?