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Still in the user Control Panel, rename your user name to have the (Make sure here that you really moved all your Log out from your old user and log in to the new user.ĭelete your old user through Windows Control Panel, do not just delete the folder. Move your files from your previous user folder with the specialĬharacters to the new user folder without special characters. Windows will create a new folder for this user, with no special The only problem is in the folder name, not in the username itself.Ĭreate a completely new user, with no special characters in it. I had the same problem when creating a user on Windows 7 with the special character ń. It may provide better result, but it's a serious registry modification and you can break something, so make full system backup before trying. I have also googled some user directory renaming guide, but I haven't tested it too. Be careful to work on the new copy, not original user directory. Windows should recreate them when needed. (you can also delete other Microsoft-related folders in Local, LocalLow and Roaming). In case of any problems you can delete following directories: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft

Then you can try to boot some LiveCD distro of Linux, delete the new account's folder and replace it with a copy of the first one (effectively substituting new account folder with the old one). The easiest solution I can think of (but I haven't tested it) is to create a new user account. Renaming an account doesn't affect user directory's name to avoid breaking absolute paths. Unfortunately there's no Microsoft-recommended method of renaming user directories. You probably mean your username, not computer name.