Change User Name


  1. shadow65
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    windows 7
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    Change User Name


    My computer came with the user name of "Valued Customer". I have changed the account name, but the user name has stayed the same. Can I change the user name in Windows 7, Home Premium?
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  3. richc46
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    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    The only way to change the name is to open a new account, transfer everything over and delete the old account.

    To avoid being corrected, allow me to add that you probably can by a registry hack, but I would not try a procedure like that, risking a potential problem later on.
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  4. Bare Foot Kid
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    Hello shadow65, welcome to Seven Forums!


    Have a look at the tutorial at the link below.


    User Profile Folder - Change User Account Folder Name - Windows 7 Help Forums
    Last edited by Brink; 14 Jul 2017 at 17:04. Reason: updated link
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  6. shadow65
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    Thanks for the welcome. From what I am reading, I can change the log-in name of the account, but I can't actually change the user name. Even if I create a new account with the user name I want, I can't see how to transfer the files from the original account to the new one.
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  7. richc46
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    Use windows easy transfer.
    Just type those words in search. Transfer to a finger drive, then transfer to new account. I did it and it works.
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  8. Brink
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    Hello Anon, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Sorry, but you cannot change the name of your C:\Users\(user-name) folder itself. Doing so will most likely give you a user profile cannot be loaded error.

    In addition, a way around this would be to create a new administrator account with the name you like, then copy all of the contents of the old user account's C:\Users\(user-name) folders (including hidden AppData folder) into the corresponding new account's C:\Users\(user-name) folder. After everything checks out ok, you can delete the old user account while logged in the new user account.

    Hope this helps,
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  10. bawldiggle
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    The link
    How to Create, Delete and Modify User Accounts in Windows By BarefootKid (RIP)
    and
    create a new administrator account by Brink

    both point to a restricted webpage

    I think the new Tutorial is User Profile Folder - Change User Account Folder Name - Windows 7 Help Forums
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  11. z3r010
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    It was a long time ago those links were posted, maybe @Brink has some newer links.
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  12. Brink
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    @bawldiggle @z3r010

    Yeah, I had those older ones in separate tutorials now for each subject.

    User Account - Create - Windows 7 Help Forums

    User Account - Delete - Windows 7 Help Forums

    User Account Picture - Change - Windows 7 Help Forums

    Password - Create for a User Account - Windows 7 Help Forums

    User Account Password - Change - Windows 7 Help Forums

    The one below is the latest one for renaming an account.

    User Profile Folder - Change User Account Folder Name - Windows 7 Help Forums
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