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I had an account named "Name". If I went into cmd with this account the default home directory was C:\Users\Name. Now that I've renamed this account to "Main User" the default home directory is still C:\Users\Name. Any idea how I can change the directory name to match the new account name?

Thanks!

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The default directory gets its name on a fresh account name, renaming an old user doesn't make the default directory to change as it will cause major problems to many of the programs installed.Best shot is to create a new user and deleting the old user after making the backup of the desired things you might need.

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I know this is old but I thought I might add that if you are accessing a share on another (non domain) machine (say over a vpn like TeamViewer), you will need to log in with the format computername\username. Using the account's current "changed" name won't work. You need to use the original, as it is in the user folder. I pulled all my hair out and wasted a couple of hours finding this out. Hopefully this helps someone.

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