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How To Change User Name Windows 11
To change the username in Windows 11, follow these steps: Click on the Start button and select the Settings icon (gear icon) from the left-hand side menu. In the Settings menu, select "Accou...
rahulkhorwal The advice given in this thread does not fix my problem. Windows 11 decided to automatically name my user folder "pluvi" based on the first 5 letters of my truncated email. Seriously? You are going to force me to use this weird random string because that makes it easy for you to create a unique name for user folders without bothering to ask users what we prefer? Why don't you just use something even more human-unfriendly like a GUID or a Welsh place name?
Please tell us how to rename our User folder to something less human unfriendly.
- netplwiz use this on windows + r.
- Yes, I agree.
