Vikki

> A few years ago, I set up a number of Windows 95 VMs. During the Windows installation/setup process for several of the VMs, I, in my infinite hubris, ignored the common advice against using your actual name as your username. In the intervening years, my egg cracked, and I now have several VMs deadnaming me.
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> Normally, the solution to this sort of problem would be to change my username on those systems (as I've indeed done with a number of VMs installed with Windows NT, even versions thereof _older_ than Windows 95), but Windows 95 does not appear to have any obvious way of doing this.

> A few years ago, I set up a lot of Windows 9x VMs. During the Windows installation/setup process for several of the VMs, I, in my infinite hubris, ignored the common advice against using your actual name as your username. In the intervening years, my egg cracked, and I now have several VMs deadnaming me.
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> Normally, the solution to this sort of problem would be to change my username on those systems (as I've indeed done with a number of VMs installed with various Windows NT versions all the way back to NT 3.1), but none of Windows 95, 98, and ME appear to have any obvious way of doing …

Actually, hang on: I just remembered the line about "Normally, the solution to this sort of problem would be to change my username on those systems (as I've indeed done with a number of VMs installed with newer Windows versions), but Windows 95 does not appear to have any obvious way of doing this." from the original question.
On the one hand, it could be considered superfluous detail; on the other, it does explain why this issue is *specifically* with Windows 95 (rather than Windows 9x in general).

(1) "In my infinite hubris...": As noted in your latest comment, this would be improved by adding the detail that that was the username I used _when setting up Windows_ (in those VMs); for instance, something like "During the Windows 95 installation/setup process, in my infinite hubris..."

(2) "...I ignored the common advice and used my actual name as my username.": I'd prefer something like "I ignored the common advice against using your actual name as your username", so as to avoid flat-out saying that my deadname _was_ (even in the past) my actual name (as opposed to that it was what I …