👨🎓 How to Rename the User’s Folder in Windows 10 (2021)
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when a tool breaks because the Windows username contains spaces, accents or non-Latin characters and the profile folder needs a safe rename.
Recommended by 5 people across 5 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What it is
A short screen-recorded tutorial from Hetman Software showing how to rename the user profile folder under C:\Users in Windows 10. It walks through enabling the built-in Administrator account, renaming the account, renaming the folder, and fixing registry paths.
What people said
Recommends saket pareek · 2018-03 · Stack Overflow · on “How to fix git commit with atom text editor”
I also had the similar issue then I figured out that I have a space in my username between two words. Git directs to the path but stops right before the space in username ('C:\Users\SALAH') and throws the following error - hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... 'C:\Users\SALAH' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Aborting commit due to empty commit message. Solution = Change your username to one word or without spaces. You can follow this particular video to change your username without reinstalling windows. [this video]
Recommends Viren V Varasadiya · 2019-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Flutter doctor unhandled exception”
their is a space in your user folder("Chirag Rawal"). avoid that space and it will work fine. for more look at this git hub issue. [LINK] i hope this video help you out to change folder name. [this video]
Recommends Sérgio Neves · 2019-06 · Stack Overflow · on “UnicodeDecodeError when trying to upgrade "pip" or "install pywinusb"”
About this particular error: " UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128) ", when trying to upgrade pip or install any python packet, was related to the user folder name. My user folder name was "C:/Users/Sérgio Neves", and the "é" in "Sérgio" was the problem, so I changed the user folder name to "C:/Users/SergioNeves", without any accent and space. I followed this video to change the folder name: [this video]
Recommends Raigo · 2019-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Error of the emulator: "Unable to access 'C:\Users\...\.emulator_console_auth_token': emulator console will not work", with username in Cyrillic”
I solved the same problem with this video How to Rename the User’s Folder [this video] by changing Windows username to non Cyrillic . Same video in Russian language Как переименовать папку пользователя [LINK] In my opinion, it is better to create a new user with Latin letters and programming there, because after renaming there may be problems with the programs. If problems appears, then search and rename the paths through regedit (ctrl + f and type "C:\users\HERE YOUR USERNAME") as shown in the video. Do at your own risk!
Recommends Rubén Cantón · 2020-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value”
Well, it's solved. The issue comes because of Windows 10 Spanish version sets as default username Tú. Creating a folder at C:\Users\Tú The accent breaks the AVD giving the error at the picture. We should change our username, rename the folder and swap all the windows registry entries referencing to the folder. If you have this issue, maybe this video would help: [this video]
Cites t_jenesaisquoi · 2019-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Windows 10 - Username with whitespace and PATH”
You can actually change the folder name. It's a bit tedious but it's worth it. Make sure you know of the edition of your Windows 10 you're using first - Professional, Enterprise or Home - before carrying out these steps, cos of step 5: Right click on Windows Start Menu option and click Command Prompt (Admin) (If you can't find Command Prompt (Admin) when you right-click on the Start Menu or search for it, you can simply go to C:/Users/Default/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WinX/Group3 on your pc. There, you'll find two shortcuts both named "Command Prompt"; one is for Command Prompt, and the other is for Command Prompt (Admin).Try out both shortcuts to know which is which, and then click on