Windows 11 I have two computers. Windows 10 on one, Windows 11 other. User name same on both problem.

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Windows installed itself on both and put the same truncated user name in the search path for both. The name it used it took from my two email accounts and truncated the name to 5 digits. Both email accounts are different BUT both use the same first 5 letters. So now I have OneDrive and Sharing that has two identical search paths even though they are not the same. Example C:\Users\bbruc is the path on my new windows 11 computer and C:\Users\bbruc is the path on my older computer with windows 10. As far as I can tell is is not recommended to change this "bbruc" name on either computer. Since thi

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