How to Make the User Folder Icon Appear on Windows 10 Desktop

The user profile folder is named with the first 5 characters of the users name, regardless of their actual name.

All I need to do is edit my user profile to connect to my original c:/users directory that I used before I reverted back to windows 10.

The equivalent of Ubuntu's ~/ (aka /home/yourusername/ ) in Windows 10 is C:-Users-yourusername-.

You will find your home directory on a Windows 10 computer as follows: Click the File Explorer icon in the bottom bar: to open the Quick access folder.

I need an alias like ~ in Unix to make a program use files from different accounts. Does something like that exist in Windows 10?

In the section titled Home folder , enter the new location of the home folder in Local path . Alternatively, you can map a drive letter to a ...

I do not want to create a shortcut to this view of the folder C:-users-%USERNAME% . Home Folder - c:-users-username. windows · windows-explorer ...

You can find your home directory in the terminal by typing the command echo $HOME or simply using the tilde symbol ~. It will guide you directly to your ...

Where is the /home/ directory located in Windows 10?

To find your Home folder, open Finder and use the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-H. You can use the Go pull-down menu from the menu bar to go to the Home ...