Many people often have problems when they try to change their user on Windows 10 or on systems of a lower rank. This mainly applies to those cases when you need to rename the registration data of the user, rather than logging in with another registered account. Nevertheless, we consider several common solutions for all possible situations that will give an understanding of the procedures in full.
How to change user in Windows 10 with switching to another registration?
First, let's assume that there are several user accounts on the same terminal. Changing a user in Windows 10 to use a different account is quite simple. To do this, you just need to exit the current “account”, and then log in through another registered profile.
To exit, you can use the Start menu, in which the system exit is selected from the shutdown section.
It is just as simple when only the “Desktop” is displayed on the screen (all active applications are minimized or closed), you can use the Alt + F4 combination, and then activate the user change point. On the start screen that appears, select another account and enter the password, if necessary.
How to change the username in Windows 10 for self-registration?
But this was a standard situation that does not affect some other actions with uchetka. It can be assumed that for some reason you need to change the user in Windows 10 by renaming the user. To access these parameters in the current account, you can use the avatar in the Start menu or call the corresponding section by entering the netplwiz shortcut in the Run console.
Select the desired entry, click the properties button, enter a new name and save the changes. In order to avoid problems and malfunctions, it is better to enter names using the Latin alphabet.
In the same way, it is easy to change the user in Windows 10 with renaming the registration record through the account management section located in the Control Panel.
Here you just need to click on the name change link, enter a new name and save the changes. If similar actions need to be performed for another account, select the control point for another record.
Create and delete accounts
You can try to change the user when logging into Windows 10 so that your current registration does not appear at all. For such purposes, the easiest way is to create a new account in advance using the above section in the “Panel on the Board”, then delete the old registration by first logging in under the new “account”.
Note: it is desirable to create an administrator account. If this is not done, then you will have to change the type manually or include a new account in the administrator group.
You can change the administrator’s name directly in the group policy options settings (gpedit.msc), as shown in the image above.
Similar procedures are provided in the options menu, but basically the settings presented in this section are best used to change the login not under the local “account”, but through a Microsoft account.
How to change the name of the computer?
Finally, let's see how you can completely change the current name of your computer device, because even with the first installation of Windows, this name is automatically assigned.
It is easiest to perform such actions in additional system parameters from the computer’s properties, where a new name must be entered in the description field (again, in Latin).
If your terminal is connected to a local network, similar actions must be performed after clicking on the change button in the workgroup block. But the name of the working group itself, if there is a local area network connection, is not recommended to be changed.