Jen GentlemanIn the latest Insider builds, we're working on adding the ability to set a custom user folder name during setup / OOBE.
Thanks everyone that's shared feedback about this over the years 🙏
For those who don't know what your user folder is, it's basically what you see for your account when you go to c:\users. For example, c:\users\jennifer
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Sean D@seanddotmedotuk ugh where is my brain lol
Jernej Simončič �@seanddotmedotuk @JenMsft Those have worked ever since directories were implemented in DOS 2.0 (as long as you don't use NT native paths).
@jernej__s @JenMsft Interesting. Shall play around with this. Thanks.
Seedy!
André Polykanine@JenMsft For a URL/CLI-freak like me, the easiest way to go there is Windows+R, %userprofile%, Enter 😊
Johann
Mohit Sindhwani
Justin 🐘Does that mean the five character limit for username folders is going to be fixed?
Louis Salkeld@JenMsft @newplagiarist To this day I still create a local account to get the capitalisation on the folder correct…
Leonick@JenMsft I'd love a feature that meows at me. Lol.
Klaus Frank@JenMsft Soo you mean adding a GUI page for the option that currently is only exposed through Sysprep and (Auto)unattended.xml to change C:\Users into something else?
@agowa338 We'd already added a command line option anyone could use to do this late last year in the insider builds, so yeah, this part is adding UI
Quentin@JenMsft is there a blog for when all this stuff makes it to general release? It's great that insiders get all this info, but no one tells everyone else, who are 99% of users?
Or rather that is left to third party blogs and sites. It would be good to have an official blog from Microsoft
@Quentin We do have release notes for retail too when stuff rolls out, yeah. Also a roadmap
@JenMsft oh great! Do you know where it is hidden? Last time I asked someone at Microsoft they weren't aware of anything.
@Quentin the general release notes are here - features like this tend to go out in the optional updates (those are the ones later in the month) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-11-version-24h2-update-history-0929c747-1815-4543-8461-0160d16f15e5
The roadmap with things being worked on is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/business/roadmap