How To Change User Folder Name in Windows 10 

Take a full backup of your files and create a system restore point. If you do anything wrong it may break the user account, even if you miss a space things might break. Some users have reported that they weren't able to login back to account. If you do exactly the same as video it won't break anything but still take a backup to be on a safer side.

Always some Indian guy on youtube with the answer to every tech problem

The *only* 9 Minute RU-vid Tutorial *ever* made where the full 9 Minutes were Actually useful.

Brother 😊 Thank you sooo much for the perfect tutorial. This would have taken me a lot longer than 10 minutes if I had to follow the written instructions I found online. As I was doing this it gave me a new sense of appreciation for all the hard work computer coders have done for us. Wow! so much coding goes into these devices I can’t even wrap my mind around it 😁 Thanks again. Peace, much Love, and God bless you ✌️😇

You're a life-saver. This is an excellent tutorial, and helps me way more than you know. Truly appreciate it.

For those who are getting Desktop is unavailable after going back to original accoutn, just find somehow in the explorer desktop (I found on the left side under This PC) right click, properties, Location, you will see that there is your old username location, click on restore default, or just manually enter new user name instead of old one and click ok, than ignore, than yes than yes if all that prompts appear I FEEL YOU ALL, that was miserable all this user name changing stuff

Thank you so much Sandeep. After watching so much videos, I finally changed my username which was set by the person who installed windows on my PC by following your detailed video. I messed up one time and was able to redo the actions as well. Highly recommended video! :)

Thank you so much, after watching so many videos and messing up my laptop once (Luckily, recovered data through system restore as I have already taken restore point), at last I got your video which helped a lot to do this process and successfully changed user account folder name which was set by windows installer person.

Hats off man...changed my surface RT's user account folder name with this. Big thumbs up... 👍👍 only problem was surface RT doesn't have direct registry edit..you have to run command prompt and typr regedit and enter...registry edit opens... everything else was 🔥🔥

For those who keep getting “Access Is Denied”, restart your PC, then run CMD as an ADMINISTRATOR

Thank you so much man! I reset my PC and had my files backed up but due to a name-change in the user folder, the projects I worked countless hours on didn't load. But you literally saved my life! Thank you!

This is helpful. The "degraded" bit is worth noting - in my case, I had half a dozen choices of GUIDs in the WMIC list, but the right one was "OK".

Guys the point is "registery editor" actions you have to find right sid code(whic names old user name then write your new user name correct like you did previous actions. If you complete this part without mistake then the mission accomplishes. Hey man you are a really Hero! İ follow the instructions as you told and all done same as yours. Thank you so much Bro 🤗 With my best regards 👏👏

did I just see Dominic Toretto from fast and furious in a youtube tutorial 😂😂, but for real the video was really helpful, thank you

I had the same problem, but after following the steps mentioned in your video, the process has been executed successfully! Thank you very much

THANK YOU! I've been struggling with this for over an hour...

Thank you very much! I was locked out from the User by windows in the process , but eventually I realized that I hadn't changed the name in the cmd with the ren command. After that it worked just fine, so thank you again!!!

Thank you so much! This was so much easier to follow than random articles

By the way, for Windows 11 users. This method still works perfectly. The option to create a new local account is not at the same place as in Windows 10, but it's not difficult to find.

I found everywhere ,but finally I got your video . I follow you step by step , it really work . 😌 Thanks

I’ve been trying to change my user account since I got my PC, now I finally did it and all thanks to you of course.

Lol this is so true just to cure my OCD as well hahaha. Thanks for the tutorial 👍

How to fix when you apply the ren [folder name] [new folder name] and it says the system cannot find the file specified.

thank you so much! ive tried this for a lot of years now and this finally did it. Somehow anytime I install windows on a new computer it slaps me with the username of the person who set up my PC wayyyyy back in the day. Hopefully I won't have to change it all the time now

Thank you, this is what I've needed for ages

SUPER helpful! Made this process easy and painless, thanks!

This is the only tutorial video that really works! Thank you!

This video proved to be very helpful for me. Thanks

3:24 wasn't expecting that at all; you got me there lmao Edit: this method worked perfectly, thank you for the help..!

Worked perfect! On windows 11. I had to put my home screen background photo back on because it disappeared, and so did the program icons which were on my desktop too (so take pictures of these in advance to put them back), but all worked well - Thank You!

You are a great man. Thanks for your help. I feel lucky to find your RU-vid channel. When i was starting to watch your video i thought it didn't work. But you made me wrong, man.

Best video for a new PC user. Thanks so much 🙏🏾

I would put 1000 likes for clear and step by step info

how do I reload back to the system restore point that I just made in the beggining?

Thank you so much, my steam was getting a fatal error and i didnt know why. You are my savior

Thank you bro I followed your approach and it got renamed successfully! One thing to note is that for my case, when I ran the 'wmic useraccount list full' command all the fullname parameters were empty even though in Name was showing proper values. But I followed your setps and I was able to change the profile name.

Thank you so much sir! Been tortured by it for so many years. VScode wouldn’t accept a path name with & symbol in it. Which is what I had in the previous user name! Thanks heaps!

Thank you for the video. I got to the point where I’m renaming the account on cmd by using the ren command. But I got a message access denied. Can you please help me with this? Thank you

Brother, thanks a lot. You made my day and after following the steps you mentioned in this video, finally IT WORKED, thanks again🥰

Thank you soo much, this video really helped me .🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thanks man! I watched a lot of stuff that mislead me so hard. Your tutorial was nice and clear!

Please make sure to make a backup. I accidentally screwed things up because I didn't realize that my copied SID wouldn't be able to be pasted in another account, so when I tried to log into my main account halfway through the tutorial everything was messed up. Thankfully I had my backup but things still weren't right, I had to move files from the new user drive (the one with the name I want) to my original user drive because for some reason only certain apps were transferred from each accounts. TL;DR Make sure to physically note down the SID and always make backups when doing these kinds of things.

Absolute Hero, all 9 minutes were helpful. Thank you!

Thanks video was very helpful just one more question what we need to do of the system protection should we keep them on or revert can you help with that

Thank you so much, it had my deadname on it and it's so nice to not have to look at it anymore. Was really straight forward and easy to follow

Thank you SO much! My ex misspelled my name back when we built my PC together (*facepalm*) and ever since I have been dying to change it. This worked flawlessly for me and was so easy to follow! I did have to change some of the folder paths manually afterwards but it wasn't a big deal.

Awesome tutorial man…really really helpful 🎉🎉

Thank you so much, Sir! Really helpful

Those who are unable to access their apps in their original account after changing the user folder just watch this video again and in the same process change it to the previous one ( change to the old user folder name from that you changed to the new using same method) may this will help those who are getting problems . In my case same happened and i changed to the previous one .

Thanks!! Also did a PC Reset and Windows named my user after the first 5 letters in my name (based on microsoft account I think) so my folder name looked like the guy-version of my birthname, without the a.. This video was clear and worked! 😄

Finally, great tutorial and it's work!!!

Thank you so much, it worked for me ,for those who get access denied after you put new user name please restart ur PC, it will work.

I had followed this tutorial completely but at 4:58 it says "Access is denied" in my laptop although the command prompt is running in administrator mode. How to Solve this ?

5:27 it says Access is denied pls help. I followed the exact steps

awesome video this worked! note if you are signed into your computer with a Microsoft Accunt you will need to sign in locally or you will get an access denied error when trying to rename in CMD.

Thank you kindly for this video, it was a great help!!

Hi Sandeep, firstly wanted to thank you for your clear and precise instructions that were easy to follow - I am very appreciative. I have a brief piece of information to share with you that may be helpful for others using Windows 11: I was following all of your steps up until renaming the User after signing into the "temp" Windows account and opening cmd as admin. When I came to this step and followed your instructions (cd c:\users --> c:\Users> ren "Windows 10" iTechFever), I kept getting a message that the syntax was incorrect. I could not figure out the issue, so I went to File Explorer, This PC, Local Disk (C:), Users, and miraculously, I was able to edit the old name of my User account to my preferred new name. This was something I tried to do before viewing your video while logged into my regular-use account, but it obviously didn't work. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything in my comment, but long story short, if you're using Windows 11, follow all of Sandeep's amazing tips, and when you get to the step I described above, rather than opening the cmd as the "temp" user, just jump straight to File Explorer and edit the name of the user account directly following the path I outlined above. I followed the rest of your video through to the end and everything seems to be working fine. Thank you so much again Sandeep, truly one of the most helpful and direct videos I have ever come across!

"Access is denied" when trying running ren + running cmd as admin, fix?

Thanks a bunch, DUDE! I really appreciate that.. I have been looking for someone that can help me to change my user name but unfortunately I couldn't but now when I have watched ur video finally I solved that prob. Thanks bro and I mean it

Thank you so much! You saved my laptop after a backup and restore. I tried so many tutorials, but there was always some part missing so they didn't work

Thank you for the help! I’m a trans woman and finally got sick of seeing my deadname floating around lmao

I strongly advise against using this method as it will retain file locations under the previous user, which caused significant issues with my computer. Consequently, I had to undo the previous system restore point and revert back to my original user name.

Worked for me. Thank you so much

Thank you so much brother you helped a lot with great explanation ❤️

5:28 after pressing enter, It is telling me "Access is Denied". What Shall I Do?

what about all the registry entries for all the programs already installed with the old username [original user name when Windows 10 was installed]??? If these are not also changed, surely this will cause problems with those programs??

Thank you so much man you helped me alot 🥺👍

Very helpful! Thanks a lot!

Bro after use this cmd cammand - ren "old folder name" New folder name. My computer shows. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW???

I'd suggest please don't mess with user file name change, any mistake can render the system unusable... Backup files in external drives(pendrives /cloud) before doing this.. Any way changing name isn't worth it when it comes with data loss risk in hand. Few Windows setting are truly a headache.

Thank youuuuuu I was also able to change it so my deadname was no longer on my computer!! Trying coding is intimidating for me and this was so simple to follow! :)

my guy you are a blessing thank you so much for this video, also, if your new username has a space, put the thing in quotes as well

it says "folder is open in another program"

5:34 after changing the name it said assess denied pls help

Something went wrong and even after recovery i came across many issues connected to messing with user folder name :c. Propably will be restoring my primary snapshot because everything seems to be falling apart. I'm sure this tutorial was very helpful to most viewers but keep in mind that if you fu.... something up you may end up in the same situation. Good luck!

For those getting access denied just restart pc and it will work

This is the only way to change/rename user folder name in Windows 10/11. Thanks it really worked.

Thank you! It was quick and it worked

My desktop dissapeared :(

Worked for me! Thanks, Sandeep!:))

Excellent Tutorial. Bravo!

Thank you bro, easy and simple!

From the video that made it clear, thank you

Thanks for the help man 🙏🏻

U can't imagine how much this video helped me... Thank You...❣

Thanks for the tutorial. Really appreciate.....

it worked for me, thank you so much!!!

Good video, it solved my issue. Thanks

This is awesome well explained with tutorial 🙏👌

Really excellent video. Thank you!

Life saver .. Thanks A lot

Still working, thank you bro 😁👍

Really Helpful, thanks alot❤

This one was perfect video that i was looking for . But after reg change , I was not able to rename the forlder. Spend lot of time to find the reason. But the solution was just to restart as temp before renaming

This is nice, works exceptionally

Thank you for curing my OCD. Sub and like well deserved!

Worked perfect for me! THANKS Sandeep Singh for posting this.

Great Tutorial Thank you brother 🙏

This works! thank you for this!

Amazing! thanks for the help!!!