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You can simply open each subfolder and check the ProfileImagePath path for the correct one. Find the SID for your user account whose profile folder you just renamed.

Under the ProfileList subkey you will find a few subfolders (starting with ‘ S-1-5-‘) that are named with the SID of Windows user accounts.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\

When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following registry location:.

Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box.

Right-click on your user account folder and rename it to whatever you like.

Open the Windows Explorer and browse to the C:\Users folder.

Log on to another Administrator account that is not the account being renamed.

To make sure your renaming of user profile folder is consistent across the entire installation of your Windows and does not break anything, follow these steps: How to Rename User Profile Directory in Windows 10, 8 and 7? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to manually rename user profile directory in Windows 10, 8 and 7, if the name of your user account folder is not what you want. However, just rename a user account and Windows won’t automatically rename the associated user profile folder. In previous post we’ve explained how to rename Windows administrator or guest account.