You can save all your important files to an external hard drive, flash drive, or you can use a cloud-based service such as OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Most apps that are manually installed on Windows (i. e. through a “. exe” or “. msi” file) should still be installed on your new account. However, you may need to reenter the license number in order to access them.
You can save all your important files to an external hard drive, flash drive, or you can use a cloud-based service such as OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Most apps that are manually installed on Windows (i. e. through a “. exe” or “. msi” file) should still be installed on your new account. However, you may need to reenter the license number in order to access them.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click the Settings icon. Click Accounts. Click Family & other users in the menu panel to the left. Click Add someone else to this PC below “Other users. " Click I don’t have this person’s Sign-in information. Click Add new user without a Microsoft account. . Enter a new user name (make sure it’s the name you want the user folder to be named). Enter and re-enter the user password and click Next. Select a password hint or security question and click Next.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click the Settings icon. Click Accounts. Click Family & other users in the menu panel to the left. Click the account you just created below “Other users. " Click Change account type below the account. Click Administrative below “Account type” and click Ok.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click your user profile icon. Click Sign Out.
Click and drag up on the sign-in screen. Click your new user profile in the lower-left corner. Enter your user password and press Enter to log in.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click the Settings icon. Click Accounts. Click Family & other users in the menu panel to the left. Click your old account below “Other users. " Click Remove below your account.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click the Settings icon. Click Sign in below your user profile name at the top. Enter the email address and password associated with your Microsoft and/or Outlook account and click Next.
Click the Windows Start icon. Type “Create a restore point” and click Create a restore point. Select your Windows installation drive (usually C:) and click Create. Click Configure. Click the radio option next to “Turn on system protection and click Apply. Click Ok Click the Windows Installation drive and click Create. Type a name for the system restore point and click Create. Click Close.
Click the Windows Start icon. Type “cmd” Right-click the Windows Command Prompt icon and click Run as Administrator. Click Yes when prompted.
Type wmic useraccount list full and press Enter. Find your username next to “FullName,” or your user folder name next to “Name. " Write down the full number next to “SID”.
Click the Windows Start icon. Click your user profile icon. Click Sign Out.
Click and drag up on the sign-in screen. Click Administrator in the lower-left corner. Click Sign In.
Click the Windows Start icon. Type “cmd” Right-click the Windows Command Prompt icon and click Run as Administrator. Click Yes when prompted.
If either the older or new folder name has a space in it, you will need to put the folder name in quotation marks (” “).
Expand KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Expand SOFTWARE. Expand Microsoft. Expand WindowsNT. Expand Currentversion. Expand ProfileList.
Make sure the spelling and capitalization match the new folder name exactly.
Make sure the spelling and capitalization match the new folder name exactly.
