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To know the SID for your user account, you may use the script sidlist.vbs.

Identify the SID for your User account, and change the Profile path The key is located here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList The ProfileList registry key contains some sub-keys, which are nothing but the list of User Account Security Identifiers (SID). Next step is to notify the system that the user profile path has changed.Ĭhanging the ProfileImagePath value in the registry %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\NewUsername Select the corresponding folder of the user account that you want to rename.Įxample: %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\OldUsername

Open the Documents and Settings folder, by typing this in Start, Run dialog:.

Logon to an admin account that is not the account being renamed.

Rename the User Profile folder using Windows Explorer: You may use ERUNT for a full registry backup. Therefore, there may be a loss of functionality in the respective applications.īefore modifying the registry, you need to take a full backup, in case you want to Undo the changes or to recover from disasters caused by incorrect registry modifications if any. This is because of the reason that there may be some absolute path references (to the old user profile folder) in the registry added by third-party software. Though you can move or rename the user profile folder, there may be some side effects after using this method. This method has been adopted from KB314843, but this page explains in detail how to rename an User account home directory. To rename (or move) the User Profile folder, you may use the following method.

Try the procedure described here : "How to rename or move a User Profile folder ?".