Renaming User Accounts and their folders

If the PC comes with a preset user account, the only thing you need to do is to create a new user account using any name you want to. Even if you want to start using a Microsoft account instead of a local account, a feature not available in Windows 7, create your new user account as a local account and switch to MS account later when signed in to this new user account.

Important to remember is to make your new, final user account as an adminsitartor account; by default the first user created in Windows 10 will be an admin, all successive accounts only standard.

When you have created the new account and made it admin, you can then remove the preset account.

ToDo list:

1. Sign in to preset user account set by PC seller
2. Create your personal, new account as local account
3. Still signed in to preset account, make your new self created account admin
4. Sign out from preset account
5. Sign in to your new account
6. Remove the preset account
7. Switch to MS account if preferred

Tutorials:

• User Account - Add in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
• Account Type - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
• User Account - Delete in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
• Microsoft Account - Switch to in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

If the PC comes with preinstalled Windows with no user accounts set up (as in most cases with new PC), the first boot starts a so called OOBE mode (Out-of-Box Experience). During the OOBE you will set up the initial, first admin user account by yourself. Create the account as a local account, switch to MS account later when first signed in with this account. See step 24 in tutorial to see how to setup a local account in OOBE: Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums.

Notice that setting your user account up as a local account is recommended also for those users who want to use an MS account. When an account is set up as an MS account, Windows uses a five character abbreviation for the user profile name and user folder name. An example: let's say your MS account email address is foebane.doe@anyemailprovider.com. Windows would in this case create the user profile and its folder named as foedo, three characters from the first name (before the dot), two characters from last name (after the dot), or as foeba, five first characters of the email address.

By creating first a local account Foebane, that will be the name of the profile and your user folder. Now when switching to MS account, that name will be kept.

Kari

In-place upgrade, Seven to Ten, you will have no issues with your user profile name and personal data. Everything will be the same after the upgrade, your username, your profile folder and son.

You misread my post. What I said is that when you upgrade you will have no issues with your user profile folder and username because they will remain the same, intact.

That you have other issues with upgrade is another issue. Of course you must be a local admin, your account being an admin account to be able to upgrade.

I have never heard / seen / read Windows 10 upgrade changing an underlying Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 admin account to a standard account. It just don't happen.