I bought a new PC W11 last week, went through the automated start-up, gave my new user name (which is always the same but the last number increased by one), and switched on.
My desktop did not show my personal content.
I checked my file explorer users/“myusername” and the user name was a corrupted version of the name I gave.
In Settings “yourInfo” my user name is correct.
I changed the desktop entry in the Windows Registry to my correct user name and now my desktop shows the correct content.
Looks like I will have to trawl through the Registry and change all the user names unless someone has a better idea.
Lucky you. We have around 20.000-odd computers in our care that are not running correctly after having finished being upgraded to Win10.
And win10 support is running out.
I had a (similar?) problem a few weeks ago.
However is the problem Hardware Manufacturer specific?
The new W11 PC I was configuring was Lenovo and I went through the [Lenovo] automated start-up (German). Forced me to enter a Microsoft Account (no alternative, no local Account option available). Took me a week (I accepted the challenge rather than re-install) to understand via Forums etc. how to change my [Microsoft] Account/User name entry, and the assigned “user-name” folder name under c:\users.
Also Lenovo crap, it told me to windows backup my old pc then log into Microsoft with my new pc and restore the back up.
Of course I logged into Microsoft with a different ID so could not not find the backup, it is impossible to change the Lenovo Microsoft login to a different ID
I have been a Mac boi since the OS came on three diskettes that were called: System disk 1, system disk 2 and a font diskette. I think it was 6.2 back in the day.
I am now running high sierra on a 2012 mac mini that I bought in CH, it is my day to day jalopy and it has given me great service since it was first fired up.
But… it´s days are numbered, I can´t upgrade the OS without tricks and this apple account is a pain in the rectum and ever since the last upgrade it will on occasion, out of the blue, throw a hissy fit and brutally log me out of everything I have on the system, every account and every program will have to be re-logged and meshed with the Apple account, the google stuff, the microsoft, the mail accounts, banking, everything. Some I cant get back in at all and am forced to open a new account, all in all a ginormous PITA and nobody can explain why this happens.
I have the theory that my mac mini has gained sentience and is telling me in it´s own way to get stuffed.
If you want to use Windows these days, Microsoft assumes that someone else manages it, professionally (your employer preferably).
Else, they assume you want to use an iPad (on which all the cloudy MSFT stuff seems to work well - the once ridiculed Mac division at MSFT has become very large and weighs a lot of influence on Apple and the future of iOS and macOS apparently, though both sides don’t really talk about it).
But:
Apple hardware has an expiry time.
Once the latest OS doesn’t support it anymore, you can drag it on for a year or two and then it’s time to buy new (or face the consequences…)
That way, they can avoid carrying over all the cruft that people hate about Microsoft (which did a similar thing with Windows 11 in that it doesn’t install on hardware that is too old and missing a certain TPM module or whatever).
As much as I love my Macs, After ditching Adobe‘s finest for Affinity. I an Not sure that I Need to Shell out that kind of moolah as all Other Programms that I use run well on Windows.
There’s an official version of Chrome for Linux (not just opensource Chromium), everything like Teams, etc, works in the full Chrome.
I’ve recently discovered KDE. It’s amazing! For years there was the debate about what’s true opensource, and the general default move to Gnome, but I hate the recent Gnome versions for much the same reasons as I hate using macOS.
The caveat: You have to choose wisely a laptop for Linux, as usual a safe bet is to buy a 2 or 3 years old model…
Some times things go full circle. KDE was very popular a while back and then I just went with gnome after it became default on debian and ubuntu.
After the disaster that was gnome3, I switched to xfce, but switched back to KDE for better multi-monitor support. Hopefully, I’ll stay on KDE for a while now.
There even used to be a native Linux teams client, but that was retired in favour of the web app. I think most of the common stuff now has linux support or runs well in Wine.