Setting Windows 11 Profile Username during Parallels Install

Hi - Due to performance issues, I recently erased my MacBook, reinstalled MacOS and then installed Parallels with Windows 11. When I installed W11 using the Parallels installer, it set my username to my Microsoft login email address (the part before the @), so firstnamelastname, which I do not like at all. I did the install late at night and, consequently, I do not remember whether there was a prompt asking me to set/change/confirm the Windows 11 username during the process, or whether it did this automatically. (Ouch)

I'm asking so that I can decide on next steps. If the Windows profile username was changeable during the install process, and I just jumped through this step by mistake, then I will just erase and reinstall everything again. If it was automatically set by the installer, then I will work on changing per instructions that I found on MS website (but prefer not to do this).

Thanks for any assistance and hopefully for saving me some time and another self-induced headache!

 

After watching several YouTube videos that show the Parallels & Windows 11 installation process, I can't see any step that would allow the user to specify the W11 profile username. Still would be appreciated if someone could confirm this. I have found a couple methods to change the username in Windows, here are two in case someone else wants to change theirs:

Method one: create new account and delete old account in 8 steps
Method two: manually change the username via registry (more complex); here's a post on MS forum

 

Do a Google search for "How to change you user name in Windows 11". (You can always create a new profile with another name and then delete the original one). MS has a very detailed description of how to do this.

 

Thanks for confirming!