Solved User profile folder

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Hi, if someone wants to change the name of user account, I think it is only logically that he wants also change the user profile folder name, isn't it? But how can we do that? is it possible?
 

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Thanks, I will try...
 

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You're welcome. Please let us know how it went. :)
 

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Yes... I renamed folder from another profile and changed registry, after that I cant get in my default profile at all. So only solution was - delete profile.
 

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That is another way. It is best to just create a new user account though. Glad you got it sorted.
 

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This is about as close to the issue as I can find. While installing Win8 Pro, my user name folder magically changed from John to My Documents. I cannot change the name. Now it's shared as John, its location is John, and it's driving me crazy. I cannot create a folder named John in Users as it say that it already exists! My searches came up with the profile name change but that is really not what I am trying to do. I just want the folder back to the name John!
BTW, my User Account is John and is administrator.
2012-08-16_040928 folder 1.jpg
2012-08-16_040658 folder.jpg
 

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create new account with administrator rights and delete previous account (choose keep all files).
Otherwise try the link mentioned by Brink
 

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Geez, I know what I did. I fuzzed with the registry to change the default folder for attachements in Outlook from My Documents to John. Now I have a damn parent-child relationship that I probably cannot fix (as I didn't bother to BACK UP my reg settings, fool of a took)
 

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