In 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 🙏

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/13/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26220-8062-beta-channel/

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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

@JenMsft Are we changing directory separators to "/"? 😄

Great to see!

@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.