Long story short you've basically hosed that account with your actions. Count yourself extraordinarily lucky it hasn't blown up on you already.
There is no safe method of renaming an account and also changing all the associated directories. Even Microsoft's own tools will not try and change any of the directory names. What you did is make the false assumption that the string "Alex_000" would be stored in its own key in plain text. What you didn't take into account is it might be part of another key and stored in hex format instead of plain text or any number of other possibilities.
You would be well advised to create a brand new account and abandon the one you have ASAP. Sooner or later your actions will come back to bite you if you don't.
Hi,
I had an issue with the general user folder name, which was shown as "Alex_000".
Although this was a cosmetic issue only, I wanted to change this to "Alex".
I successfully managed this by changing about 50 entries in the registry (via regedit).
So fine so good.
Now I found out that there are still some leftovers with "Alex_000" in the Windows system, although I have tried to find every bit and peace, where possible:
When I try to open "Add or Remove Programs" in the Metro surface, I get an error message:
Windows cannot find
'C:\Users\alex_000...\Classic_{a lot of weird chars}.settingscontent-ms'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
Somewhere in the system, there must still be links with Alex_000 existing. I tried searching the registry, tried a simple search on C: disc - no success.
In other words:
Everything works fine - except of starting the apps from the metro surface for "remove software", or "user accounts", and maybe some other system apps, which I haven t discovered yet. If I do the same from the desktop, no problem - all these apps work well!
So where are the referring links for such system apps within the metro surface stored? Obviously not in the registry...
How/where can i find these orphaned links for the said apps in Metro?
Thanks a lot!
Alex

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