Windows 11 Why am I unable to change my username in windows 11 user settings?

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Aman Vinayak

I'm an administrator of my PC but yet when I go to "User Account" section in control panel and select my profile, there's no option through which I could change my username.I literally bought my new pc a few days ago, and while setting up my profile ( creating Microsoft account ), there was no such option to setup my username, it didn't even asked me to change ( or set ) my username.So what actually it did is, it took the first 5 letters of my email address and created it as my username, for example, my email is "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***", and my username by default ( picked by the system itself

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