Strange User Name in Windows 8.1
When I created my user in Windows 8.1 it created a folder C:\Users\rgtur_000
How do I change this to C:\Users\Ray?
How do I change this to C:\Users\Ray?
yes if user name is same in window 8 it add _0000 in the end of name.
Use Profwiz tool from http://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html
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These tools is free for personnel use
There you need to select required local user and also need to select respective profile folder to which you want to assign him
For Ex: You have got username "Ray", then select it as user account and for profile folder select "C:\users\Ray"
Mahesh
Hopefully above tool will work with workgroup computers, if not use below tool
http://iwrconsultancy.co.uk/reprofiler
These tools is free for personnel use
There you need to select required local user and also need to select respective profile folder to which you want to assign him
For Ex: You have got username "Ray", then select it as user account and for profile folder select "C:\users\Ray"
Mahesh
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Remember that in Windows 8.1 (unlike Windows 7 and unlike Windows 8), new user accounts are created as email addresses (not local accounts). If the extra accounts are local accounts you can delete them as noted above. If you have an extra email account you can delete in the Windows 8.1 account setup.
Once you have one user account, if it is an email account, you can change it to a local account by going into PC settings (Metro), Accounts and changing the account to local.
Work carefully as you likely have one email account (forced by Windows 8.1) that has your profile and documents. This is the one you need to save (do not delete) and then change to local if you wish.
Just remember that this is new and not Windows 8 or Windows 7.
.... Thinkpads_User
Once you have one user account, if it is an email account, you can change it to a local account by going into PC settings (Metro), Accounts and changing the account to local.
Work carefully as you likely have one email account (forced by Windows 8.1) that has your profile and documents. This is the one you need to save (do not delete) and then change to local if you wish.
Just remember that this is new and not Windows 8 or Windows 7.
.... Thinkpads_User
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Creating the new user and copy the old profile to new profile worked. This appears to be a Windows 8 problem. The new computer I purchased had Windows 8 installed on it and upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 is not as straight-forward as one would expect.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/37c266c0-0124-4fb1-83b7-8bde4db986b0/why-user-profile-is-cusers-username000-truncated-username-and-underscore?forum=w8itprogeneral