Your user account name is the name you’ll find in the “Users” folder on your Windows installation drive (usually drive C). Sometimes it can be misspelled or simply a shortened version of your email address. After installing Windows 11, Microsoft takes the first five letters of your email address and sets them as the name of your user folder. This can be quite annoying, especially for those who want their name spelled out in full or simply want to rename it to something more personal.

But it’s not as simple as just right-clicking and renaming it. As you’ll see, you don’t even get a “rename” option. So if you want to appease your OCD that flares up every time you need to open something from the C:/Users folder and find your abbreviated name there, here’s how to rename the Users folder in Windows 11.

Renaming your user folder requires a slightly different approach for Windows 11 users. Essentially, you’ll need to create a temporary administrator account and rename your user folder from that temporary account. Here’s how to do that.

Now that your user folder has been successfully renamed, you no longer need the administrator account.