Windows 10 left off last digit of my username in folder structure

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Hi all,
I have installed windows 10 Pro 64bit and logged in with my microsoft account. However when I go into the users folder
it is showing my name as "Adria" and not "Adrian" I can't imagine why this would be intentional. Has anyone else come across this?

Cheers
 
Everyone else with a name longer than 5 characters have noticed the same problem. The best way to avoid this is during the install, to create a local account first, and once the install has finished, then link it up to your Microsoft account.
 
I noticed the same thing when I installed Windows 10 on my laptop, so on my desktop I made the local account first and then changed that into my Microsoft account.

On my laptop, I tried these steps - http://superuser.com/a/949072, which does work, but after the reboot, you'll be asked for your pin/password a few times, and then you'll be logged into a guest account. When you're on that guest account, go into explorer and rename the folder to match what you entered in the registry key. Reboot again and you should be fine!
 
The actual folder is the first five characters of the MS account email address followed by some digits. It's obfuscated so much by the OS that you more or less never have to look at it.
 
Its symptomatic of Windows 10 - there is lack of attention to detail in most aspects of the OS if you look at a feature in macro. I'm increasingly surprised how many people can't see it and/or find it acceptable.
 
Rroff said:
Its symptomatic of Windows 10 - there is lack of attention to detail in most aspects of the OS if you look at a feature in macro. I'm increasingly surprised how many people can't see it and/or find it acceptable.
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Because of this...

Caged said:
The actual folder is the first five characters of the MS account email address followed by some digits. It's obfuscated so much by the OS that you more or less never have to look at it.
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Under normal use you never see it so why does it matter? It's just got to be unique and related to the user name.

Complaining about it is like complaining that there's a System32 folder on a 64 bit OS. Its a total non issue.

My GFs folder is called 'magic' and I guarantee she will never ever notice that.
 
Granted its an underlying mechanic and a non issue in that sense - and the user accounts are probably internally referenced by some long number or string anyhow.
 
Yep I had this issue.

Fixed it by reinstalling, creating local account then sign in to your outlook email, and it will 'upgrade' it and your username will be correct.
 
I thought it was me messing up, my username is "pinchez" but my folders on all 4 machines as been named "pinch", I'm a little OCD but I'm going to try and ignore this one!!!
 
lol... thanks for pointing this out.... now all I have is 'speed' as my folder name. Thanks.... that OCD part of me now wants to fully reinstall. (unless there is another way around it?)
 
Scougar said:
lol... thanks for pointing this out.... now all I have is 'speed' as my folder name. Thanks.... that OCD part of me now wants to fully reinstall. (unless there is another way around it?)
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I posted some instructions if you want to change it (post 4). It involves some registry editing, but it does work. Make a restore point before trying it though - just in case.
 
Why not just create a local account, then remove you MSA, and then convert the local account to your MSA.

Or just not worry about it, as it really doesn't matter.
 
martin9887 said:
I posted some instructions if you want to change it (post 4). It involves some registry editing, but it does work. Make a restore point before trying it though - just in case.
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Brilliant, worked for me!

For me it was an issue as I work with some spreadsheets on my desktop and my laptop. These spreadsheets have several addins which have to be located on the C drive (why, I don't know). So I have to keep the username on my laptop the same as my desktop. Unfortunately, when Win10 changed my username on the desktop, none of my spreadsheets worked. So thanks for the tip!
 
Thanks for the tips I ended up reinstalling and setting up a local user and then linking to my MS account.
Have subsequently discovered another issue with Outlook.com emails not sending through outlook 2013.
Never had this problem with win8.1 .Will start a new thread.
 
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