It is for sure! But what I have never understood about the whole name change thing is, why would it not be an option to just go into the Explorer menu, choose rename, and name the dang folder whatever you want to? Security? Hogwash! Security is me being able to into MY Explorer, on MY system, and rename anything I want to rename. I can't convince myself that any of this mumbo-jumbo is all that necessary. Whatever happened to "user friendly"?
I cannot complete Step 11. I get an error message that "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program"
I do not understand. I am logged into my Administrator account and not the profile that I am trying to rename.
Hi, Shawn! I just registered so I can say thanks to you. Your guide was extremely helpful and easy to follow. This worked for me.
This does not provide a solution as the Windows installation routine may not present the user with an option of using a local account instead of a Microsoft account.
Why doesn't the following procedure work for new hardware?
1) Add a local account with administrative rights.
2) Sign into the local account.
3) Delete the Microsoft account.
4) Delete C:\users\ subfolder of the Microsoft acccount (if not already removed by step 3 by Windows)
Hello Rogoc, and welcome to Ten Forums.
If interested, the Windows 10 installation process will always let you set up a local account instead of Microsoft account if wanted like in step 24 below.
Clean Install Windows 10
You should be able to do your steps unless something is in use or some permission issue preventing the deletion of the user profile folder, but here are some other options for deleting an account.
Delete User Account in Windows 10
I would seem to me that reinstalling the entire Windows 10 operating system because of an issue with a particular user account is not sound advice. Does anybody disagree?
I'm simply just pointing out that you are able to create a local account instead of Microsoft account during a clean install if wanted since it looked like you were under the impression you couldn't. Nothing more.
Were you able to use any of the other options to delete the account you wanted?
Shaun Brink.....THANK YOU, this worked a treat)
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