Never rename your Windows user account

Never rename your Windows user account(blog.szynalski.com)

34 points by tszyn 4 years ago | 6 comments

zelon88 4 years ago |

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.

tszyn 4 years ago | |

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...

majora2007 4 years ago | |

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

Mup_TIpekpaceH 4 years ago | |

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

yetihehe 4 years ago |

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".

DarthNebo 4 years ago |

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...