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I set up a new user for somebody to work on my computer, and I ended up having to reformat my harddrive (Win 8/x64). When all my stuff was restored through carbonite, I noticed it is all on the user I created for this person. How can I either change the username or copy the contents to my main profile?

Ramhound
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tydowns
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  • possible duplicate of [How to rename user folder in Windows 8?](http://superuser.com/questions/495290/how-to-rename-user-folder-in-windows-8) – Dave Jun 11 '14 at 09:27

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Open up the Computer Management console (compmgmt.msc) and as below:

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Control Panel - User Accounts - Change your account name.

@BillP3rd - The version of Windows 8 the OP is running may not have that option. I'm running vanilla Windows 8 on my laptop and the Local Users and Groups folder does not exist (and yes I am using an Admin account).

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If you have alocal account go to control panel and accounts and just rename your account.

Then open a cmd and type

net user administrator /active:yes

and reboot.After reboot login to the admin account and open cmd again

ren C:\Users\oldname Newname

Next open "Regedit" and go to edit--> search and search for your old account's name.wherever you find it just replace it After youre done with regedit open cmd again and run:

net user administrator /active:no

Reboot into your account

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