The guest account in most previous versions of windows is/was used by hackers to gain access to your system. By having the default name, it makes it really easy for people to log into your machine that you don’t want to have access too. Or maybe you just don’t like your friends seeing it say guest, when their logged in using your machine. When you change a name of a user account, the original name is still tied to that account even though the new name is displayed in the Start menu and at log on. So you will not be able to use both names to rename another account with without deleting the other account that already has the name.
- Open the Local Security Policy editor.
- In the left pane, expand Local Policies, and click on Security Options.
- In the right pane, right click on Accounts: Rename guest account and click on Properties.
- Type in a name you want instead that has not ever been used by any other user account on the computer, and click on OK.
- Close the Local Security Policy window.
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