

Once the Settings app opens, click on Accounts and then on Your account. In earlier versions of Windows 10, if you are logged into your Microsoft Account, you can do the following. Your account name will change, and it will now appear in the login screen, Start Menu, etc. In the designated box, write the new name of your choice and click on Change Name. Select Change your account name to open the following panel. Open Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > User Accounts.

Change Account username in Windows 10 1] Via Control Panel UPDATE: Things have changed in recent versions of Windows 10, and so this post has been modified/updated. Step 2: Switch your account back to MS Account using your Gmail address based MS account ( Microsoft Account - Switch to in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums ). Today, we will see how you can change the displayed profile username of your Account in Windows 10. Step1: Switch your user account to Local Account ( Local Account - Switch to in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums ). In some cases, the last name had got truncated whereas in other cases the email Id was being displayed. After users upgraded to Windows 10, some of them have noticed that the username being displayed, when they are signed in using a Microsoft Account is not what they wanted it to be.
