Unfortunately, Windows 11 Home doesn’t allow local installation, but Windows 11 Pro does, so consider yourself lucky if you happen to have a Pro license. The trick, as this reddit post points out, is to use an offline (local) installation of Windows first, set your username, and then log in to your Microsoft account once Windows is all set up. The “better” solution is to just fix the problem directly at install time. Unfortunately, it seems the best way is to create a new account entirely with the username you desire, and then migrate over to that. I didn’t like the idea of a computer deciding where my files would be located, so I tried to figure out how to change my username. It turns out that Windows automatically generates a 5 character username for you based on the name you have assigned in your Microsoft email address. I didn’t recall ever explicitly setting that as my username during the installation procedure. For some mysterious reason, whenever I walked through the normal Windows install, and set up my account (via my Microsoft email), my user folder would be created as C:\Users\vasua.
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