W11 User name that Windows does not recognize

I used Easeus PC Transfer to migrate my system from a Dell 7010 to a 7060 so that I could get used to Windows 11 (the 7010 couldn’t run W11 safely!)
Everything seemed fine except I had to create a local account to sign on to Windows. This I did as an Administrator with the name “TonyL”. I found I had to re install a few applications but other that that I was happy.
I don’t seem to have an issue running everything on the 7060, BUT, I have found that in the Users directory my TonyL account has very little in it and the bulk of the expected folders (documents, pictures etc.) are actually under another user name that must have been created when I loaded on the transfer files from Easeus. This user is named “loopi”.
As you can see from the screen shots below Windows doesn’t seem to recognise “loopi” as a user account yet Explorer etc. show all the correct folders when I sign on with the “TonyL” account! I do not get an option to sign on with the “loopi” account yet I clearly ran all the “net user” commands while in the User/loopi directory!





Somehow and I don’t know how or where “TonyL” is associated with “loopi”.

I am running W11 Pro 23H2 X64

I run the same W11 on my Dell laptop and I have no spurious users and no problem with my actual problem.

I provide this background because on my laptop (which I updated to W11 Pro from W10 Pro directly) I have Glary Utilities (6) and have no problem with Glary appearing on right click context menus. On the 7060 however no matter what I try, I can’t get Glary to appear In the right click context menus. Same Glary version, same W11 version, same Glary options. I have checked the registry and it looks like contexthandler entries are the same on both computers.

I am stumped.

Can anyone shed some light on the user name situation or why Glary right click won’t appear on the Dell 7060?

All I can offer is that a recent default install of Win11 and creating a Microsoft Account with an E-Mail address will use the first 5 characters of that address. My new Notebook in Dec. did that.

If you would and could run some PowerShell commands for us, we can get a better idea of what's happening. Open a Terminal, run each of these in turn, and share the output with us. You don't need administrator rights to run any of these.


For the first command, the SID column will have something like 'S-1-5-21-12345678910-8675309-987654321-500' for each user. You can take out the part up to the last dash if you're worried. We only need the part after the last dash (the 500 in my example).

Here are the results of the commands.

prideslaw said:

I don’t seem to have an issue running everything on the 7060, BUT, I have found that in the Users directory my TonyL account has very little in it and the bulk of the expected folders (documents, pictures etc.) are actually under another user name that must have been created when I loaded on the transfer files from Easeus. This user is named “loopi”.

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prideslaw said:

Somehow and I don’t know how or where “TonyL” is associated with “loopi”.

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You are signed in with the username TonyL (3rd screenshot, UserName variable). The user profile for this account is stored under the loopi directory (same screenshot). You can verify that this user is linked to that folder in the other two screenshots: In the 2nd screenshot, the loopi directory is tied to the SID ending in 1003, and in the first screenshot, that account is named TonyL.

prideslaw said:

Everything seemed fine except I had to create a local account to sign on to Windows. This I did as an Administrator with the name “TonyL”.

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If these were always local accounts, it looks like the account was originally created as loopi and later renamed to TonyL. Unless EaseUS uses the user name loopi somewhere in it's operation; I don't know how that software works.

prideslaw said:

As you can see from the screen shots below Windows doesn’t seem to recognise “loopi” as a user account yet Explorer etc. show all the correct folders when I sign on with the “TonyL” account! I do not get an option to sign on with the “loopi” account yet I clearly ran all the “net user” commands while in the User/loopi directory!

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Correct, there is no account named loopi.

Thanks for your explanations. Loopi came from the 1st 5 characters of my Microsoft Account email. Not sure if this came from Easeus or when I signed on to the 7060 the first time.
I guess I'll just live with the "redirect".

You can rename the folders.