Windows set user home directory

For a reason I do not clearly understand one of it has a username that was "youss" instead of "youssouf". So i decided to remove my Microsoft account from the two computer that had the right username and reinstall windows 10 on the third one that had the wrong username.

I switched to Microsoft account in the installation of windows 10 but the username remains "youss". I used registry editor to edit the username folder and windows does not recognize the account as Microsoft account.

How to do in order to change the username and it's folder name? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Hi, By changing the Microsoft account, will not change the username. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Noor ul Hadi. In reply to A. User's post on August 7, I have the same problem , sorry to say that I don't think so that a clean installation will work for me as my name is Noor ul hadi , I typed it Noor ul hadi during installation typed ul away from Noor but still it show Nooru instead of showing Noor only.

Click the bigger partition and browse to the folder you created for the new path. When ask to confirm that you want to move all files from the old location to the new location, click Yes. Depending on the size of the folder, it may take a while to complete. After all the content is moved, the Documents folder should be stored in the new location and any new documents will also be stored there.

Boy, is that dumb. Might look into whether symbolic links could point them both to the same place. One the policy is applied to a computer anyone logos onto this computer will get a home drive mapped to the path above… Warning: As this policy can only be applied to the computer object this will apply to everyone who logs on the computer that have this setting applied… including Domain admins and alike so be carefully how you apply it… TIP: If you have your workstations segmented in your OU structure by site you may want to apply this policy setting at each site to the nearest file server you want to use for storing your home drives.

Related Articles. How to target Group Policy to Virtual Computers. How to apply a Group Policy Object to individual users or computer. The post is more of an FYI for those who might have been looking for this functionality… In some scenarios I could see having the home drive isolate to regions would be useful, and in other having them roam would be very good.

Hi Alan This is exactly what I was searching for. Do you have any idea what am I doing wrong? Hi, is there a way to accomplish this in a Windows R2 AD environment? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Featured Post. How to stop local administrators from bypassing Group Policy. Before I begin this article might be, for some of you, this will be well know information and it might all seem rather logical. But I continue to see questions being asked on forums as how as a Group Policy administrator can I prevent Search for:.

Follow Us Twitter Facebook. Ploni Ploni 6 6 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Works fine, but may break some some applications. These can't find some of their old data anymore, due to hardcoded paths. I would recommand to avoid moving the user profile if the user already used the account. Um, no? Unfortunately this doesn't work on Windows 10 Home.

And what is it supposed to work on? I just used this method. Worked fine. Thank you. Windows 10 Pro — Andrew Charneski. From the Start menu, enter env to display the Environment Variables window. The following steps work on Windows 10 Pro Search for and open lusrmgr.