Solved Help renaming user folder

[NCSue]

I purchased a computer for my father, and the store where I purchased it used his last name for the user account name. My dad died just a few days later. I want to rename the folder in which pictures, documents, etc. are saved. How can I do this? I haven't figured out the trick.

Thank you.

 

[Brink]

Hello Sue, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I'm so sorry to hear about your father's passing.

You will not be able to change the name of the actual C:\Users\(user-name) user profile folder itself.

The only One way 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,
Shawn

UPDATE:
Please see my new post below.

 

[Brink]

Hello Sue,

I stand corrected by myself. I found a way to safely change the user profile folder name.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/147545-user-profile-folder-change-user-account-folder-name.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn