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I tried the solution here https://superuser.com/a/1346983/64729 and also https://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/windows-10/43/win10-change-account.html

Login to the system as an user who is in the administrator group. It should be a different user from the one that you are trying to change.

Open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Users folder. Rename the old folder corresponding to the old user account

But I am not even able to rename the folder.

I shut down, restart and login as the other Administrator, and it says the folder is still open and will not allow me to rename it.

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A simpler way to fix Microsoft's mess is to create a hard directory link.

CMD as admin:

mklink /J C:\Users\myful C:\Users\MyFullName

The user folder myful will still be there, but you can ignore it.

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Most likely (but untested here) reason is that the folder is being guarded/accessed is its designation as a profile folder. The tutorial from TenForums edits the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<*User SID*> path before renaming the folder.

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