When you perform a fresh installation of Windows 11, the operating system automatically creates a user folder based on your Microsoft account email address or profile name.
This is not to the liking of many users, as many have strange email addresses or long names that get cut off in the process. To address the issue, Microsoft has finally added a new feature that helps you set a custom user folder name.
It's worth noting that the feature isn't really new. Windows 11 gained user folder name customization a few months ago, but the initial implementation wasn't the best, as it required renaming the folder via the Command Prompt, and not everyone knows how to do that during the initial setup.
So now Microsoft has a much friendlier way to set a user profile name.
When you give your computer a name during the initial setup, you can click “Show user folder name” and enter anything you want, as long as it meets Windows Naming Requirements . This means your profile folder can only contain letters, numbers, hyphens, etc. See what the new user interface looks like in the image above.
Microsoft is currently testing the new, user-friendly way to rename the user folder in the latest preview builds of Windows 11 from the Dev and Beta channels.
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