On a new PC with Windows 11, user folder name is the email address instead of the user name associated with the account. Now it's causing problems.

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Bought a new Dell XPS 17 9720 with Windows 11 Pro installed, and used Dell migrate to copy from the old Windows 10 Home pc. I used the same microsoft account for both pc's. It just finished, but then I see *2* user folders in C:\users - one folder with the user name associated with the account (as it was on the old pc), but the other folder used the email address as the folder name, instead. All files except those from onedrive are in the folder with the email address name. When I connect to onedrive it will only use the folder with the "correct" user name. I haven't gone any farther unti

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