User account and user foilder messed up

woldsweather

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My user account was (and still is) called Trevor. My C:users/foldername was trevo which was so highley irritating I investigated changing them to be the same.

I followed this: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-name-of-user-profile-folder-in-windows-11.2133/

but at point 11 there was no folder there called trevo.

I tried reversing thew change in regedit I had followed in the tutorial but my user now opens with a brand new profile and now I have no access to my files or email.

Is this reversible?

Yours in desperation!
 

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Haven't tried changing but Win11 setup on 2 Notebooks has required an E-Mail address for the Microsoft Account and the User name has been the first 5 characters of that E-Mail name.
 

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Xploit Machine

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The article guide from that forum is outdated and Microsoft has made many internal changes in the "builds" released till to date. I would suggest you to enable the hidden Administrator account and retry the procedure again carefully by reverting back to old user folder name. Use the command netplwiz in run command and enable the hidden Administrator account.

.. have you tried Restore Point?

P/S: Enable show all hidden files from the folder options from your new unhidden Administrator account after reboot.

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Xploit Machine

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In my own style, I just force the ISO to create my name when installing Windows via Rufus .. I dont like to mess up with regedit tweaks afterwards which will make an unstable system. My own method retains the user folder name even if after I make any in-place upgrades in future .. stay safe, never mess with the system :)

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