Then attach it to your Microsoft account. The same as the name you want for your profile folder, It's not too late : Create a new local account whose user name is If, as is your case, you have started with a Microsoft account, You then attach the user to your Microsoft account.įor a local account, Windows uses the full account name as the.The first user you create should be a local account with your.You should do it the other way around than yours: This is a new laptop, so I don't mind starting over, just wondering what the best way to do this is. Is it best to just sign in using a local user account (to control the profile directory name) and THEN link that to a microsoft account? Is there some option somewhere you can click on during the Windows first boot setup process to do this? Something I missed when I selected to sign in with my microsoft account, where I could have provided the local profile directory name of my choice? Is there somewhere in a place where I can go and set a 'preferable account id' or something that is used when I create an account on a new computer? So then if I go and set this in my web account, THEN do the setup process on the new laptop, it will use whatever I like as the profile directory name? What is the best practice for using a microsoft account in Windows 10, but with a specific local profile directory name? However, I am 100% sure that I was never asked what my local profile directory name should be on the laptop and now I am wondering: what the best way to control this from the very beginning? So the question in short is: Now, I have read up on this (lots of posts on how to rename an account) and found that the best way is to create another admin account, then rename the local account and use the registry editor to change the profile path of the SID for the old account.

Therefore I've ran into the debacle that my local profile directory is using the first 5 characters from my last name, which is NOT what I want. I've got a new laptop and did the initial setup using my Microsoft account (i.e.

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