In Windows 10, you can change the account name that is displayed by specifying Full Name, but the use of both terms user account name and Full Name is confusing.
In fact, Full name is displayed as an account name in conjunction with Full name. If there is no full name, user account name is usually displayed instead. Full name is set as one of the information about the user.
When you register a user account first time, the account name created will be your user folder (C:\Users\username), and changing the folder name is difficult after that, but you can simply change the Full Name with your favorite name.
▼ For example, we change two standard user account name is displayed below by using a full name.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 1 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account1.png)
Running Computer Management
▼ Right-click on the
and 1“Computer Management”. in the Context Menu.![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 2 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account34.png)
▼ On the “Computer Management”, move to the following location.
[Computer Management (Local)] > [System Tools] > [Local Users and Groups] > [Users]
The user whose account name is to be changed. Double-click 1“Name“(here, BestFriend).
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 3 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account5.png)
▼ The “Properties ” is displayed. Type 1“Full Name” (here, My Best Friends) in the text field of General tab, and click 2
button.![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 4 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account6.png)
▼ When returning to the “Computer Management“, the 1Name (My Best Friends) entered in the “Full Name” field above is displayed.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 5 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account6-1.png)
▼ As a result, the user account name “BestFriend” on the “Start Screen” has been changed to 1Full Name with “My Best Friends”.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 6 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account7.png)
Renaming the user account with “Full name” setting
If you change the Full Name, all of the user account names are replaced with it. For example, you can also see in the Accounts settings that 1standard user account name has also been changed.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 7 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account8.png)
▼ The user account name on the logon screen is also affected.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 8 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account9.png)
Changing the user name on the User Accounts Settings
▼ As below, press
key to open Run, and enter1control or C:\Windows\System32\control.exe in the text box. Click2 button.![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 9 [Windows10]Disable Restart automatically](/windows10/images3/insider-preview15.png)
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▼ In the Control Panel window, Click 1User Accounts.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 10 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account9-1.png)
▼ Click 1Manage another account.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 11 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account9-2.png)
▼ You can see that the 1account name has been also changed on the Manage Account.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 12 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account11.png)
▼ This time, we’ll change the account name from the Manage Account. First, click the account name (My Best Friends) to return to the following Change a Account window. Click 1Change the account name.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 13 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account11-1.png)
▼ On the Rename Account window, enter the following: Enter the 1new account name (here, New Friends), and click the 2
button.![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 14 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account12.png)
▼ It has been Changed to 1new account name as shown below.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 15 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account13.png)
▼ The account name on the start screen as shown below also are replaced with the 1new account name.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 16 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account13-1.png)
▼ In the Accounts settings, a standard user account name has also been changed.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 17 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account13-2.png)
Changing in Full Name in Computer Management
▼ The new account name(New Friends) changed on the “Change a Account” above also affects the “Full Name” in “Computer Management”, so it has been displayed with the newly changed name.
![How to replace User Account Name with Full Name on the Start menu and login screen in Windows 10 18 [Windows10][Windows10] changing User Accounts](/windows10/images/user-account14.png)