There is a "catch" of doing this. All the desktop/documents/appdata aplications won't work after renaming your user name. U have to manually rename your old username in all apps/programs via regedit and it will take a long time. This method is good when u don't have apps/programs or u have a fresh windows 10 install.
hello guys; short question i tried to rename my userfolder from olive to oliver i did it via the admin account and i changed the path aswell in regedit but when i tried to log back on my normal account i lost all my games or other programs and i dont know why looked at the user folder and there was two no folder olive oliver than i deleted the olive cause it was empty and than i reboot pc in hope it will fix it but after that there was a oliver and a temp.desktop folder and the path in regedit was the u/temp.desktop..... folder can someone help me to fix it
Hi Andy, my username was changed by a pc repair man who changed my username to my full name including Capital letters with spaces. I have followed your video and when I got to the point of changing my name, I received the error msg ‘The username could not be found’. Do you have any advice, please?
Wow thank you very much Andy. Gone through a whole lots of other videos but were much too complicated until I found yours. God bless you and thanks again.
Dude, you were the only one that worked, I looked for videos from my country with my own language, videos in English and all of them were always the same and I couldn't change the name of the folder, I had problems because the oculus apps of virtual reality don't accept names with spaces so I had to change it, if it wasn't for you I would never be able to install and play with my VR on the pc.
Ah the pain of having entered gibberish as my username when I first set up my pc is finally, FINALLY gone after 2+ years. Thank you Andy and god bless you!
The MOST crucial step to making sure you don't mess up your PC is to exercise caution @01:30 stage of this process. You MUST LOG OUT of your account and then log in to the Administrator account. Do NOT do what Handy Andy does in his video of simply switching across to the administrator account without logging out!
Thank You SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS !!! Have struggled for hours on a complicated install with the issue being a space in the user directory name. This has been addressed and now I can continue with the regular scheduled insanity. 😂🤣😂 Wish you had a tutorial on what I am attempting to install. Lol. I believe it would not be near as complicated. Thanks again. I am subscribing and recommending this channel to some family and friends.
Just a clarification - i understand you also need to change every instance of C:\users\Andrew in the registry to Andy, not just in the profilelist. Sure that will change the folder name, but any installed programs by your name before you changed may give you problems.
This works great! One item I stumbled into.... The video leaves out that once you execute the first step and rename the username,windows may not allow you to use the admin account to rename the files.? If you get a " cannot rename because files are open" error open task manager and select the users tab and disconnect to close the files on the username with the error message. Then close task manager and try again. It will work perfectly!
@@dodge1630 Yes... Disconnect the Username that the ERROR MESSAGE SAYS HAS OPEN FILES. Then close the task manager and redo the steps. The Username files will now be closed and it will work perfectly!
What about my data and programs? Would it remain untouched and working? Because my user folder name has a special character "ž" in it and that breaks multiple programs.
When I am logging in as administrator and renaming it, it says "can't rename folder is open in another program". However, it's not open. Any idea how to solve this issue?
Had the same issue. Restarting my machine and logging into the Administrator account ONLY fixed the issue. You should be able to then rename the folder.
Hi Andy, just want to drop a big THANKS. It's funny, but this little user folder thing has been bothering me for a while. My OCD didn't like having a different profile and user folder name, and I actually did not know how to change it without screwing my profile. Very nice little trick :)
I can't delete the new Admin account that has been made from using Powershell. Would this be as some as typing the same powershell line, but typing no for active rather than yes?
This won’t work for me. Created two acc but when i try to change the name of the original acc, it says it can’t make changes because something is opened somewhere but nothing is open
I figured it out, all you need to do is rename the older folder to the same folder as your new one, it asked me a couple of questions to move files around and worked
hello! after entering the net command, it says access denied. is there something wrong with it? but i managed to change my user name. thank you. great help 👍🏻
hello guys; short question i tried to rename my userfolder from olive to oliver i did it via the admin account and i changed the path aswell in regedit but when i tried to log back on my normal account i lost all my games or other programs and i dont know why looked at the user folder and there was two no folder olive oliver than i deleted the olive cause it was empty and than i reboot pc in hope it will fix it but after that there was a oliver and a temp.desktop folder and the path in regedit was the u/temp.desktop..... folder can someone help me to fix it
I just got a new pc and was unable to log into it unless I signed into Microsoft. I think with that info, my PC was automatically named to the first 5 letters of my email. I didn't like this at all. But this video helped me change that, thanks a lot!
That's _exactly_ what happened with my new PC. Now, instead of my real name which I've always had on every computer, my user name is first because that's the first 5 letters of my email. FFS, the system doesn't even _ask_ what name you would like to use. I'm hesitant to start fiddling around in the registry, it's taken me days to set this computer up with all necessary settings and programs.
@@12thDecember This video honestly fixed the problem for me, but at the end of the day it's up to you. I just hate looking at the first 5 letters of my email (which was my real name) everywhere. There is some weird bug though, where a folder with the original name keeps popping up in *C:\Users\*, but it only has empty Bandicam folders in it because I Bandicam occasionally. Other than that I don't think it's ever used
@@vAngelx Thanks. I'm glad you were able to fix your user name. I just am not up to dealing with the registry with everything else that's going on with setting up this computer as a work station. Microsoft just makes everything harder and more obscure with every version release.
Hey Andrew, thanks for help, it worked for me but when I move to my account, is shows me- "C:\Users\*old name*\onedrive\Desktop is unavailable. If the location is on this PC, make sure the device or drive is connected or the disc is inserted, and then try again. If the location is on a network, make sure you’re connected to the network or Internet, and then try again. If the location still can't be found, it might have been moved or deleted" What to do?
@Tondonba laishram Right click on desktop, click on manage one drive, then it will sync the desktop and issue will be resolved (Be connected to internet) Worked for me
Hey man, I want to change the name of the user that is linked to your Microsoft account. I followed the process in this video and it did work but I had to reset the PC and it changed back to the default user name that is linked to my Microsoft account. Any ideas on how to change that?
Τhanks for the video. After disabling the Administrator with the command: net user administrator /active:no, I still can see the folder Administrator in Users. Can I delete it (without harm) or hide it?
Deleting the folder manually is likely to cause problems. You can use a tool like Delprof2 ( helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/ ) to remove it safely, but I'd be inclined to just leave it there.
now start menu not working , gives me "your start menu isn't working. we'll try to fix it the next time after user folder rename you sign in" tried to rename back the folder but still the same ..
I followed the same procedure but when I signed out and tried to login with my new user name the window asking for the password. I haven't used any password. Please tell me what to do next which password it is asking for?
I lost all my files after doing this... now nothing is opening ... it says class not registered everytime i try to open something ... what to do now ??
Not working, i get the folder in use error: the action can't be a completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program Two options will show, cancel and try again
I cant change the name on users. It says "The action cant be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program" I already turned off all the applications and i already signed out the other user im using
My pc aint logging properly soo ye now not good and im gonna just reset my whole f pc bc i dont know how to get all back soo i think its easier that way
Ok never mind my first comment, I deleted it. I thought i lost some of my files turns out i just meed to restart it. The name is changed and bot a single thing missing. Thank you
There is a "catch" of doing this. All the desktop/documents/appdata aplications won't work after renaming your user name. U have to manually rename your old username in all apps/programs via regedit and it will take a long time. This method is good when u don't have apps/programs or u have a fresh windows 10 install.
Thanks
Thanks Bro
hello guys; short question
i tried to rename my userfolder from olive to oliver i did it via the admin account and i changed the path aswell in regedit but when i tried to log back on my normal account i lost all my games or other programs and i dont know why
looked at the user folder and there was two no folder
olive
oliver
than i deleted the olive cause it was empty and than i reboot pc in hope it will fix it but after that there was a oliver and a temp.desktop folder
and the path in regedit was the u/temp.desktop..... folder
can someone help me to fix it
@@theKEY.- rewind the steps simply change your user nae to its old name if that doesnt work i thin resseting your pc might help
Hi Andy, my username was changed by a pc repair man who changed my username to my full name including Capital letters with spaces. I have followed your video and when I got to the point of changing my name, I received the error msg ‘The username could not be found’. Do you have any advice, please?
Wow thank you very much Andy. Gone through a whole lots of other videos but were much too complicated until I found yours. God bless you and thanks again.
Dude, you were the only one that worked, I looked for videos from my country with my own language, videos in English and all of them were always the same and I couldn't change the name of the folder, I had problems because the oculus apps of virtual reality don't accept names with spaces so I had to change it, if it wasn't for you I would never be able to install and play with my VR on the pc.
Thank you!!! Way quicker and easier than other tutorials!!!
Ah the pain of having entered gibberish as my username when I first set up my pc is finally, FINALLY gone after 2+ years. Thank you Andy and god bless you!
The MOST crucial step to making sure you don't mess up your PC is to exercise caution @01:30 stage of this process. You MUST LOG OUT of your account and then log in to the Administrator account. Do NOT do what Handy Andy does in his video of simply switching across to the administrator account without logging out!
Is there any way to fix this issue after its been done, currently my friend is now struggling to sign into her own account after doing this
Thanks a lot! I have watched many videos, but this one actually helped me change my typo username "Georg". It still works as of 2024.
Thank You SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS !!! Have struggled for hours on a complicated install with the issue being a space in the user directory name. This has been addressed and now I can continue with the regular scheduled insanity. 😂🤣😂 Wish you had a tutorial on what I am attempting to install. Lol. I believe it would not be near as complicated. Thanks again. I am subscribing and recommending this channel to some family and friends.
Thank you, it's working, deserves tons of support on this video
Just a clarification - i understand you also need to change every instance of C:\users\Andrew in the registry to Andy, not just in the profilelist. Sure that will change the folder name, but any installed programs by your name before you changed may give you problems.
Oh fuck
What do you mean by that?
Is there any tutorial to fix that? I don't really want to reinstall my computer just because of a stupid profile name.
Finally, a video that shows u how to change the registries. Thank you, great video!
nice guide after i do my labtop got critical error start button GREAT!
if you have same error like me just change back to original and done!
10000x easier than other tutorials! thanks! subbed!
Very good video, thanks. One tip before doing the changes, if anything went wrong simply restore.
Thank you brother ❤
You made it very easy while everyone complicating the process..
This works great! One item I stumbled into....
The video leaves out that once you execute the first step and rename the username,windows may not allow you to use the admin account to rename the files.?
If you get a " cannot rename because files are open" error open task manager and select the users tab and disconnect to close the files on the username with the error message. Then close task manager and try again. It will work perfectly!
Ive opened the task manager but am stuck in the users portion. Do I disconnect?
@@dodge1630 Yes... Disconnect the Username that the ERROR MESSAGE SAYS HAS OPEN FILES. Then close the task manager and redo the steps. The Username files will now be closed and it will work perfectly!
Omg you are the absolute best! This worked perfectly!
While setting an account name I used polish special sign and my PC went crazy when downloading apps
Thanks for the video
Bro you're the best ❤️❤️ love from Pakistan
What about my data and programs? Would it remain untouched and working? Because my user folder name has a special character "ž" in it and that breaks multiple programs.
THIS IS VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
whats your name
When I am logging in as administrator and renaming it, it says "can't rename folder is open in another program". However, it's not open.
Any idea how to solve this issue?
yeah same problem here
i tried everything
Had the same issue. Restarting my machine and logging into the Administrator account ONLY fixed the issue. You should be able to then rename the folder.
@@MohammedSadiq-dn1hh damn i just made a new user literally transferred everything in under 2 minutes,
Try logging out on the main account and logging in to the administrator, it will help
Super helpful, thank you.
Do I need to delete the Administrator user profile?
Sweet, thankyou! I should have watched the full tutorial before jumping into admin account lol. I didn't see the part of changing the registry.
Thanks alot bro, it really works👍👍
Thanks, worked for me well.
Windows environment variables!! Will they also not need to be updated?
Hi Andy, just want to drop a big THANKS. It's funny, but this little user folder thing has been bothering me for a while. My OCD didn't like having a different profile and user folder name, and I actually did not know how to change it without screwing my profile. Very nice little trick :)
I'm glad you found it useful, and thanks for watching!
I can't delete the new Admin account that has been made from using Powershell.
Would this be as some as typing the same powershell line, but typing no for active rather than yes?
Nevermind, I've just watched until the end of the video and seen that yes, that is in fact the way to do it.
Sometimes my stupidity is rather amusing.
This won’t work for me. Created two acc but when i try to change the name of the original acc, it says it can’t make changes because something is opened somewhere but nothing is open
Same
Same
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
My start button isn’t working in my account after this. How do I fix this?
Howd u fix it??
I also faced the same issue... Resetting the system on the Local account will do...
you are the best ❤
i dont have the change name option
I don't have the "change account name" option available. I only see 3 options not 4. What do I do then?
same
That is because you are logged in using your Microsoft Account. You need to change back to using a local account instead THEN renaming your account!
I've done all steps of you instrustion. But my old name folder keeps poping up under User every time I log in my current account, any ideas?
I figured it out, all you need to do is rename the older folder to the same folder as your new one, it asked me a couple of questions to move files around and worked
@@mar_maarouf But you cannot have two folders with the same name at the same location! Can you please explain what you actually mean?
The video was very useful 🇹🇿🙏🙏🙏
hello! after entering the net command, it says access denied. is there something wrong with it?
but i managed to change my user name. thank you. great help 👍🏻
I’m sure you figured it out but for anyone else wondering you have to run CMD as administrator
hello guys; short question
i tried to rename my userfolder from olive to oliver i did it via the admin account and i changed the path aswell in regedit but when i tried to log back on my normal account i lost all my games or other programs and i dont know why
looked at the user folder and there was two no folder
olive
oliver
than i deleted the olive cause it was empty and than i reboot pc in hope it will fix it but after that there was a oliver and a temp.desktop folder
and the path in regedit was the u/temp.desktop..... folder
can someone help me to fix it
I feel like this is something you should do when you had a fresh start, it could really messed up your downloads..
Thanks man. Love u
Very thanks ❤
best tutorial for this
I just got a new pc and was unable to log into it unless I signed into Microsoft. I think with that info, my PC was automatically named to the first 5 letters of my email. I didn't like this at all. But this video helped me change that, thanks a lot!
That's _exactly_ what happened with my new PC. Now, instead of my real name which I've always had on every computer, my user name is first because that's the first 5 letters of my email. FFS, the system doesn't even _ask_ what name you would like to use. I'm hesitant to start fiddling around in the registry, it's taken me days to set this computer up with all necessary settings and programs.
@@12thDecember This video honestly fixed the problem for me, but at the end of the day it's up to you. I just hate looking at the first 5 letters of my email (which was my real name) everywhere. There is some weird bug though, where a folder with the original name keeps popping up in *C:\Users\*, but it only has empty Bandicam folders in it because I Bandicam occasionally. Other than that I don't think it's ever used
@@vAngelx Thanks. I'm glad you were able to fix your user name. I just am not up to dealing with the registry with everything else that's going on with setting up this computer as a work station. Microsoft just makes everything harder and more obscure with every version release.
thank you it worked!
I have done this but some applications still create a fold with the old user name... how can I change this for all ?
Hey Andrew, thanks for help, it worked for me but when I move to my account, is shows me-
"C:\Users\*old name*\onedrive\Desktop is unavailable. If the location is on this PC, make sure the device or drive is connected or the disc is inserted, and then try again. If the location is on a network, make sure you’re connected to the network or Internet, and then try again. If the location still can't be found, it might have been moved or deleted"
What to do?
@Tondonba laishram Right click on desktop, click on manage one drive, then it will sync the desktop and issue will be resolved
(Be connected to internet)
Worked for me
@Tondonba laishram do you use one drive backup?
When I go onto the make changes to your user account setting it shoe everything but change your account name, any solution?
Renaming it caused some problems. Not advisable if Windows Account is loggedIn.
Omg I finally found a perfect tutorial. Thank you so much !!
Thank you sir!
Hey man, I want to change the name of the user that is linked to your Microsoft account. I followed the process in this video and it did work but I had to reset the PC and it changed back to the default user name that is linked to my Microsoft account. Any ideas on how to change that?
Bro user Andrew folder still in use can't Rename
Ye same to me
Τhanks for the video. After disabling the Administrator with the command: net user administrator /active:no, I still can see the folder Administrator in Users. Can I delete it (without harm) or hide it?
Deleting the folder manually is likely to cause problems. You can use a tool like Delprof2 ( helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/ ) to remove it safely, but I'd be inclined to just leave it there.
Thank you so much bro
did this but didn’t let me login after did i do anything wrong?
Thank you! Video very helpful 👍
Handy andy I did all of that but the desktop still tries to access C:\users\andrew\OneDrive\Desktop and fails what did I miss
Great🎉
Thanks Andy the Handy Candy.
Good Work.
I got a problem! My original account is also a administrator, it keeps signing my account out if I log in it. 😢 Help
I am still having problems with OneDrive not being mapped correctly
now start menu not working , gives me "your start menu isn't working. we'll try to fix it the next time after user folder rename you sign in" tried to rename back the folder but still the same ..
Thank you
Please help me it's show drive and desktop is not available please help me and also start button is not working here please how I contact with you
Really thanks man, it's worked
Hi, my start menu keep showing critical error? Do you know how to fix?
does it happen after you do this?
Did u fix it? Pls let me know
I followed the same procedure but when I signed out and tried to login with my new user name the window asking for the password. I haven't used any password. Please tell me what to do next which password it is asking for?
I lost all my files after doing this... now nothing is opening ... it says class not registered everytime i try to open something ... what to do now ??
Not working, i get the folder in use error: the action can't be a completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program
Two options will show, cancel and try again
Sign out of the user account. Do not switch. Sign out.
For some reason the Change your account icon is not showing up?
deadass thank you!! i came out as trans but my name was different on my pc so this was a huge help to change it :3
i walked them through the steps, very helpful and easy to resite
It says Folder in Use and I can't Change it, what should I do? Pls Respond
I cant change the name on users. It says "The action cant be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program"
I already turned off all the applications and i already signed out the other user im using
Try restart, mine was fixed after restarting
Perfect!
its not working 😣
thank you.... brother its really helpful
This is working, finally! thanks!!!
how can u plz tell me if u have discord my username is: ZakYT#3133
@@Zakwitdashiftss im too its not working
@@purewood1568 it works for me
1:24 no it does not it says it didn't find the username
Nvm it was bc my pc is in another language. To find how is administrator called on your pc, type "net user" in the command prompt
Good Content...Really worked well and enjoying a lot..Thanks a lot..
Thanks so much for sharing this.
That did not work... I got to the Cmd Pmt and it worked... but once I right clicked it said rename but would not save the new name.
I had the same issue,Just restart your PC, it'll work
Tqqq❤
Brilliant stuff. Cheers for the help.
My laptop is not logging in properly plzzz help me it is new laptop
My pc aint logging properly soo ye now not good and im gonna just reset my whole f pc bc i dont know how to get all back soo i think its easier that way
the "change your account name" option doesn't appear
pls helppp
@UncivilPizza saved my ass, thx!
I need some one to talk to me please🥺
Excellent... Thank you sir...
Usefull content😍
Ok never mind my first comment, I deleted it. I thought i lost some of my files turns out i just meed to restart it. The name is changed and bot a single thing missing. Thank you
Not working now
I tried this and failed, but found out quickly how to delete the admin account
Same here 😂
can anyone help me this
i just lost my whole main account thing 😭
I did exactly what u said and it fucked up my whole pc and now even the windows start button doesnt work… so i guess byebye to all my files or idk
Installed programs will be gone and creates a big mess😱😱
U have a fix??
i love u
Whole pc got wiped fuck