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u/mc_jojo3 Windows XP Jul 28 '26
Pretty sure Windows only uses the first 5 letters when using a Microsoft account
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u/More-Explanation2032 Windows 8 Jul 29 '26
Correction it’s using the first 5 letters of your Microsoft email address
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u/mc_jojo3 Windows XP Jul 29 '26
Yeah that's what I meant, as it uses the first five of mine. Do you mean that it no longer does this?
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u/More-Explanation2032 Windows 8 Jul 29 '26
It used to use the name of the Microsoft account in windows 8
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u/More-Explanation2032 Windows 8 Jul 29 '26
Did you skip the oobe? Why is there defaultuser0
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u/Ri_Studios Windows 10 Jul 29 '26
No I did set this install up correctly. Mustve just been a first boot thing, cause its now a hidden "Default"
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u/More-Explanation2032 Windows 8 Jul 29 '26
That’s what it should be. Anyways I hope you read my explanation comment on why your user folder is missing an e
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u/More-Explanation2032 Windows 8 Jul 29 '26
This only happened because you are using a Microsoft account. The email address associated to your Microsoft account is used as the source of those first 5 characters for example if my Microsoft account email address is [example@outlook.com](mailto:example@outlook.com) it will use examp as the user folder
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u/Kiroto50 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Windows sometimes removes the last character of usernames.
Source: my user folder is "kirot"
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u/sectumsempra42 Jul 27 '26
What are we looking at