Saturday 3 November 2018

windows 10 - Account folder moved to "Administrator.000"?

Before the Anniversary Update (which I only installed recently), Win 10 Pro 64 had one main account (mine) :



  • Its name was Administrator (it was the built-in admin account)

  • Its full name was different (lets say it was "Full_Name")

  • This account had (obviously) Admin rights

  • Its Win 10 User folder was "C:\Users\Administrator"


And I was very happy with this.


Since applying the Anniversary update a few days ago, Win 10 has changed my User folder to "C:\Users\Administrator.000" and created a new/different "C:\Users\Administrator". I didn't noticed anything special at first since everything appeared fine (desktop icons etc appeared like normal, everything had been silently moved and set up). Privileges are still fine, etc.


But browsing through the Users folder I noticed this change. It's not a big deal in and of itself but for the sake of cleanliness I would like to return the situation to normal, ie :



  • have my user account be the built-in Admin account again ; and thus also...

  • having my User folder be "C:\Users\Administrator" once again (with everything moved back and correctly detected/set in there) and not have this "Administrator.000" be my user account folder anymore


How can I proceed ?

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