Windows 8 User Folder Rename

My current username in Windows 8 is Danny.  The directory of my user folder is C:\Users\danch_000 .  This is annoying and driving me crazy.  I should also tell you this user is tied to my Microsoft Account.  On my Microsoft Account my Name is Danny.  How can I change the name of the folder without messing anything up in he registry or any other part of the computer.

My current username in Windows 8 is Danny.  The directory of my user folder is C:\Users\danch_000 .  This is annoying and driving me crazy.  I should also tell you this user is tied to my Microsoft Account.  On my Microsoft Account my Name is Danny.  How can I change the name of the folder without messing anything up in he registry or any other part of the computer.

This laptop was previously used by someone named Macaulay, and despite changing the username to Danny, the C:\Users username folder was still called Macaulay.

I simply added a new folder in C:\Users named 'Danny' - the exact name of the current username, then went into the Macaulay folder, pressed CTRL+A then CTRL+X, then exited back out, went into the new Danny folder, and pressed CTRL+V.

I left the old folder in there, but it seemed that the moving of all files to the new folder updated the registry or something.

Could you post the MS update with the registry file download that fixes this?

Thanks.

Ok dude... this is a hassle but it does work.

 

Summary:

You need to log in on a local admin account (create one if it does not exist already), delete your user account (Danny) and then rename the danch_000 folder to danny.old (I do this only so that you do not lose any data you may have already saved here. it is just a backup folder now)

 

then Create a new LOCAL user called Danny. Log into this user account and all the files will be under C:\Users\Danny.

 

Now you must go to pc settings and choose switch to Microsoft account.

 

Once the process is finished, you are using a Microsoft Live account, with the 'User' Displayed as your full name, but all the files are in a directory named 'Danny'

 

If this is too summarized for you and you need detailed instructions just post here and tell me, I am in the process of creating a guide for just this issue for my coworkers

 

Yrs Red

 

Hi Red, I was wondering if you ever did finish that guide? I have a similar problem and more detailed instructions would be very helpful.

Details of my problem: I setup Windows 8 using a newly created Microsoft Account. I changed my name in the Microsoft account, from say "John-Doe" to "JD," and my username in Windows 8 changed to match that. I then decided I did not want to use a Microsoft Account to log in, and I switched my Microsoft account to a local account. I just noticed that my username (JD) does not match the directory of my user folder, which still uses the original name associated with the Microsoft account:  C:\Users\John-Doe. 

Would greatly appreciate more detailed instructions to remedy this problem. Thank you!

Just letting you know that I managed to solve the problem following your response as a guide. I just created a new account and deleted my old one, simpler than I thought it would be, since I just want to use a local account. Thanks!