You may find you have to restart instead of just logging out and logging back in. And in step 3, we click on the sub-keys until we find the one with ProfileImagePath C:\Users\John Smith, and change it to C:\Users\JohnSmith. So in step 2, we use File Explorer to navigate to C:\Users and rename the John Smith subfolder JohnSmith. To find out which one to change, click on each sub-key and examine the values, to find the sub-key with the right ProfileImagePath:įor example, let's say we want to get rid of the space in a user profile folder name. The ProfileList registry key contains a number of sub-keys. The procedure quoted above was provided by Microsoft ( here) in relation to a perceived issue with Windows 7, and continues to work in Windows 10. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\\ Go to the registry and modify the registry value ProfileImagePath to the new path name.Go to the C:\users\ folder and rename the subfolder with the original user name to the new user name.You may need to create a new Administrative account at first. Log in by using another administrative account.
And the only registry change required is to edit a single string value (the one that tells Windows the path of the user profile folder):
There is no need to create a new user account, so all the settings associated with the existing user profile are preserved. Microsoft has actually documented a very simple and clean way to rename a user profile folder.ĮDIT Feb 2022: If you plan to use winget to manage your Windows installations at any point, note that Microsoft now warns against using this procedure under Windows 10 or later as it can stop winget working.
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