When we work on a Windows 10 PC , we have many ways to adapt the system to our needs, either functionally or in appearance. For this, Microsoft puts in our hands more and more integrated functions that help us in all this.
As you can imagine, this will be very helpful when it comes to winning in everything related to productivity in our day to day. And we are not only referring to changing the photo of the desktop background , but many other options that modify the operation of the system. It is for all this that in these same lines we are going to focus on the possibility of changing the name of the user of the team.
Customize Windows 10 to the maximum to improve your productivity
The case may arise that, while using the PC with Windows 10 , we may want to change the name of the user account, or the full name of it. Keep in mind that the Settings application does not offer the option to change the account username in Windows 10. Luckily, the classic Windows Control Panel includes a function for all of this, as we are going to show you then.
At this point, note that this method applies to both local user accounts and Microsoft accounts used to log in to Windows 10. Of course, for this we need to be the administrator or log in to an administrator account. to rename or change the username. We should also know that sometimes, when changing this account name, we may encounter some errors.
These can occur when trying to open files with UWP applications after renaming the account. But the error seems to occur only on Microsoft accounts, not on local user accounts . Therefore, to achieve this, we will describe the steps to take, although before we recommend creating a restore point in case we come across the errors mentioned. This will give us the possibility to restore the PC using that restore point.
Change the username of the Windows account
The first thing we must do is locate ourselves in the search box of the Start menu, where we enter the term ” netplwiz ” to access the functionality. With this, what we achieve is to open the options window of the user accounts. Well, in the new window that appears, is where we have to select the name of the user account that we want to rename. Of course, this can be done in the event that we have several of them working on the computer. Then, once checked, we click on the Properties button.
In the event that the mentioned Properties button is grayed out, before we make sure that the option Users must enter their name and password to use the device, is checked. At that moment we can already use the mentioned button. This will already give us access to what really interests us in this case to change the name of the Windows user account.
Thus, in this window it is where we can write a new username and change the full name of the account as such. Similarly and also from here, we can write a description for this account. It is worth mentioning that this step is optional, and in addition this information does not appear anywhere later. Well, once the changes have been made, we just have to click on the Apply button for the changes to take place.
