If you’re a Windows 7 user, there are a few things you can do to change your profile in the registry. This article will show you how to do this on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. First, open the Start screen and type regedit. This will open the Registry Editor. Next, navigate to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Profile Settings\All Users. There you’ll find a few key values: The first value is called “ProfileName”. This is your name in the registry. You can change it if you want. The second value is called “Description”. This is what’s shown when you open the Registry Editor for the first time. It should say something like “Default User Profile”. The third value is called “Shell”. This is what’s used when you type regedit into a command prompt or other text editor. It should be set to “User shells (default: empty).” The fourth value is called “ShellExecutePreference”. This setting tells Windows how to execute commands after logging in as your account’s shell (usually cmd). If it’s not set, then Windows defaults it to “%windir%\system32\cmd” (the default on most systems). If this setting isn’t set, then any user-level commands executed by your account are executed as if they were run from your own personal shell rather than from the ShellExecutePreference setting in the Registry Editor. Finally, there are two other values that aren’t really important but worth mentioning: “StartupType” and “StartupMode”. These two values determine how startup programs are started (by default they’re both set to Automatic). If they’re not set, then startup programs always start in Manual mode (the default on most systems). Finally, there are three more values that aren’t really important but worth mentioning: "
