How to change home folder address in windows 8.1?

Question

Microsoft

Hello! I am using windows 8.1 (license). The microsoft profile is being used. As a result, I have the following address for my home folder: C:/Users/Alexander/ . As you know, many programs (in particular, console ones) do not like Cyrillic on the way (and it is very convenient to store everything in the home folder).
The question arises: How to change the user's home folder, say, to C:/Users/Alex/ ?

Answer 1

If the problem is only with Cyrillic and Russian paths, then the easiest way would be to create a symlink to Alexander
mklink /D c:\users\alex c:\users\Alexander

Answer 2

There are instructions on the Internet, I tried several, I don’t remember what the problems were in the end, but I came to recreating the profile. To do this, create an offline profile with the username Alex, and only then link it to your live ID.

Answer 3

you can just move my documents/desktop/downloads somewhere towards the d drive: for example, by going to the properties of the corresponding folders in the libraries

Answer 4

I followed the first part of this tutorial superuser.com/questions/495290/how-to-rename-user-...
True, I tried to cheat and do everything from the same user. Do not repeat my mistake - Windows will think that the profile is damaged and you will have to restore it. And if you do it according to the instructions, then everything should be fine.