Then Select Users, you will see some accounts, then select the one whose username you have to change, Right Click that and press Rename, if you are prompted, press ok.

Hi you did it the wrong way, follow these steps.ġ) Open an elevated Command prompt and type this command “net user administrator /active:yes” (this command will activate the default administrator account)Ģ)Shutdown entirely, and sign in with the administrator account, you might see screens like “We are getting Windows ready for you… blabla.”ģ) after it opens the desktop, go to “this PC” and double click the C:/ disk (the one with the Windows Icon. This issue didn’t happen for us so anyway, we’ll add a warning before editing the registry editor.

Mukhtar Jafari Post author Augat 1:54 PM Reply.

It was fixed by putting in an old username in the same place. I made the mistake of changing the username in Registry Editor and had a mild breakdown as it cased fatal error in all opened softwares and upon restart Windows showed a login error and it showed like it had no installed softwares. One of the ways to change user account name in Windows 10 is “ Control Panel“. Now, I’ll explain each way and I hope you get something in here. Control PanelĪs I mentioned above that you can change user account name in Windows 10 in 5 different ways. If again the problem did not solve, let me know. I’ll show you 5 different ways to change user account name in Windows 10 that will work one of them for sure. Again don’t worry about this problem because we have the very best solution for this error. This is actually somehow hard for the beginners that don’t know how to change user account name in Windows 10 or Windows 8. Surely changing the name is possible, but how? Will, I have to create a new administrator account and delete the old one?“. I used the Control Panel to go to Users, but there seemed to be no way to change the name back to the original. During the process, it changed the name on my local Windows 10 user account.

As Ziggy has asked this question “After I installed Windows 10, I created a Microsoft online account to see what it was like. Most of people ask this question that “ I can’t change the User Name in Windows 10″. How to Change User Account Name in Windows 10 These methods are easy as well and complex as well. There are lots of topics and articles related to this topic on the internet but here you will find some useful tips & tricks that you might never see them. In this article, I’m going to show you how to change user account name in Windows 10.

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