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After changing my username from Jerol to Jerold (using netplwiz) on Windows 10, and frebooting, %username% is Jerold BUT other environment variables, like userprofile, still use Jerol. How do I fix this?
This is because one variable refers to your user profile and the other refers to the name on your user account . . .
When you change your user name in Windows 10, that does not change the name on your user profile folder unlike previous versions of WIndows . . .
Microsoft do not advise changing the name on that folder, it can cause difficulties with file paths in Windows, however, if you do want to change the name on that folder, then trusted MVP Shawn Brink has a step by step method on this page:
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