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I installed Windows 10 on one of my PCs when the machine was offline. So Windows created a local account. Later when that device went online, I linked it with my Microsoft account, but now that account doesn't have the same users-folder name as it has on my other PCs.

On the machines where I was online during the installation of Windows 10, the user-folder is "C:\users\email", and I want to have the same name on this new machine, where the folder-name now is C:\users\Martin.

What is the most simple solution to restore the default folder-name (C:\users\email) that Windows 10 automatically creates when you don't create a local account during installation, without installing everything again?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: this is not about how to just rename the account. I want to know how to make Windows create the default name of the user-folder, like it would do if I'd used my Microsoft account during the installation.

MartinRJ
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the simplest answer since the windows 10 machine in question is now online is to unlink the local account from your microsoft account, create a new user with the microsoft account you want and then after copying the contents you want over to the newly created account with the appropriate named user folder that you want and then disable or even delete what is now the old local account.

mc

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