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How to Change Windows 11 User Folder Name for a Personalized Experience
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Nov 14, 2024
https://www.dev2qa.com/how-to-customize-windows-user-folder-names-for-a-personalized-experience/ Does your Windows 11 user folder have an awkward default name, especially if it’s based on the first five characters of your email? This video will show you how to rename your Windows 11 user folder, step-by-step, for a more personalized experience. We’ll go through using PowerShell to get user account info and using Registry Editor to update the folder path, allowing you to set a name that suits your style and makes your Windows setup feel truly yours.
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have you ever faced this issue you
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create a new windows account but the
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system automatically generates a weird
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user folder names it's just the first
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five characters of your email if this
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bothers you this video will show you how
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to rename your user folder to fit your
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personal style whether you're using a
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local or Microsoft account we'll walk
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you through the steps to make Windows
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truly yours look at my windows 11 now I
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log with the local account hello and the
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hello account root
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folder or the hello account home folder
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is is here and now I will add another
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Microsoft online account and by click
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Start click
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settings click accounts on the left and
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on the right
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click other
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users click add account
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Microsoft all account email
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address yes and click
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next click
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finish now the account has been added to
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this Windows 11 but there is not the
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root folder or home folder for this
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account because I need to uh sign out
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and sign in with
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the Microsoft on account for the first
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time logging in the account will create
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a home folder here okay now I click here
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click sign
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out and uh sign in with this new uh
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Microsoft unlock
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account yes uh because I use Microsoft
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authenticator to login and it will send
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a message to my authentic Ator and the
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the aenor is a mobile phone app it show
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Numbers
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88 I need to uh price the number 88 now
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I press the number 88 and uh it
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authorized that uh this is me who log in
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to this windows with Microsoft all
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[Music]
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C click the next
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okay there we need to add a new PN
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[Music]
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code click confirm now I logged in with
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the Microsoft unlock account you can see
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here and uh it's root folder is created
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for the first time login you can find
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the Home folder for
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it yes this is the home folder but you
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can see see the folder name is just the
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first five captures of the email address
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uh if your email address uh first five
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capture do not uh mean meaningful so
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then the F name will be a minist so what
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I want to do is to change the folder
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name to a mini folder name for example
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the full name of my email address now I
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will show you how to do it
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first we need to sell out of this
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Microsoft on account and uh then sign in
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with another account such as the hello
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account because hello account is a
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administrator
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account click search box input par shell
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and right click Windows par shell click
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run as
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administrator click yes in this
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window run this Comm press enter the
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command is got local user select object
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property name as
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ID now it will show all the uh account
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name and the S ID and this account
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H and this is the Microsoft online
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account S ID please remember this S ID
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will use it
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later now click search box
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input R edit right click the register
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editor click run as
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administrator click
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yes in the registry editor uh find this
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part computer HQ local machine software
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Microsoft Windows NT current version
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profile list yes and under the profile
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list there are some folders and the
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folder name is just the Sid of the
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account for example the
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hyy account S ID and is one2 and this is
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just the as S ID for the account happy
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and select it on the right side here is
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the item profile you made pass double
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click it you can see this is does
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uh account happy account uh home folder
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you can turn the home folder while here
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for example we turn the home folder to
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the full name of the email address and
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now click
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okay now the home folder has been
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changed in the red
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it now close the r editor and open the
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file explorer
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go to
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the account rout folder and change this
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folder name
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to to the
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full name of the email address and this
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know this name is the same as a red
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editor Okay now click the search box
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input CMD right click the command prompt
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click run as administrator
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and uh in the command P window run this
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command MK link this command will link
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uh the old account rout folder to the
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new account root folder and uh when you
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uh operate the old uh account home
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folder it will uh transfer the file or
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or other documents to the new fold okay
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now press enter it will run okay this
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means the S link created
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successfully now we should s out the
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hello administrator
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account and sign in with the Microsoft
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on
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account we can create a file let click
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the desktop click new click Text
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document
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they create a new text file on the
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desktop and the Open File
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Explorer we go to
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the Microsoft on account gr folder here
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and uh desktop yes you can see the new
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file is here and we can also go to the
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symol link folder
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yes yes there is also
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file which is this P file if we create a
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new file in the in this
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folder for example a new beit M IM made
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and we go
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to the real root folder desktop yes you
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can see this file is also placed here
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this means the
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uh account root fold has been changed to
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this for name
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now we open the file explorer and uh
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there you the one
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drive icon here right click it click
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properties and you can see the One
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Properties the location has also been
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changed to the new uh account root
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folder if you want to see the text
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version of this video you can go to this
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URL and uh all the command and get all
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the command in the
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well p
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