Windows 11 Potentially Corrupt User Profile (Win11) causes programs to not start?

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MEEESTER SoupCan

When I first got my PC with Windows 11 Home, I found that the user profile name was the first five characters of my email address. Dissatisfied with this, I looked up how to change it with the registry editor (since regular renaming wasn't an option). I then ran into the issue where the system panicked when I changed it. I'm not sure how, but I eventually got it to be called 'User' without the warning message popping up on boot. Everything seems to work, but I find I can't start a number of executable programs, including ones that are merely games. I'm not sure if this is my Antivirus silently

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