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Need help with changing name of user profile folder
I would like to change the name of the user profile folder. I have found and tried a few methods including one from Microsoft forums. None of them worked. I kept getting something about my User needing to sign out and back in again that there was a problem, so I would sign out and back in again and it didn't work. I think the reason is because Windows created a TEMP user and would log me in under that so there would be a folder named C/User/TEMP and still the original named folder of C/User/myuserfolder.
I found this on the forums here: Change Name of User Profile Folder in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
The instructions are very similar to what I have tried. In the above post John W used safe mode. Do I need to go through all the steps again as listed in the post and then go into safe mode, or can I just use safe mode to change the folder name?
Also, are there newer instructions for how to do this with updates to Windows since the above thread was posted over a year ago?
Thanks in advance.