How can I change the case of a Windows 7 user name?

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When I installed Windows this time around, I mistakenly entered my name as "myname". Seeing this annoys me every time I log on, and I would like to change this to "Myname".

Unfortunately, when I try to do this with the "User Accounts" control panel, it tells me that "there is already an account with that name". I imagine that usernames are not case sensitive for practical purposes - hence not allowing me to change it - but how can I change the capitalisation of the name that is displayed on the Welcome screen?

Flyto

Posted 2013-12-21T16:15:41.553

Reputation: 516

2Change myname to Sam, then change it again to MyName... And you are correct, Windows does not care for the case of filenames, or usernames. – Austin T French – 2013-12-21T16:18:00.010

@AthomSfere duh, why didn't I think of that?! Just verified that it works. If you'd like to submit that as a full answer, I'll gladly accept it :) – Flyto – 2013-12-21T16:21:05.430

LOL, done. You never know what someone has tried, but it seemed pretty straight forward. – Austin T French – 2013-12-21T16:57:19.693

Answers

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You are correct that Windows does not care about the case of the user name. so myname and MyName are exactly the same.

You can get around the issues by changing the name twice though. Go to your Users and change the name to something random, like Sam, and then change the name again to Myname.

Austin T French

Posted 2013-12-21T16:15:41.553

Reputation: 9 766

i.e., the same as the process for renaming a file  to the same name but with different capitalization! – Scott – 2019-06-12T20:46:10.773

1Thank you for suggesting the obvious, which nevertheless needed suggesting :-) – Flyto – 2013-12-21T18:01:35.230

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