Users Folder. HELP

My users folder size is calculated at almost 13 GB. There is nothing really in there that I can tell. I noticed because I am running out of hard drive space. After trashing and emptying 7 GB worth of stuff my hard drive only regained about a gig. HELP. Someone.

The icon that looks like a house is your homespace. It should be named the same as your username. I'm not sure why the file is locked though. Did you look inside your homespace to see what was taking up the 12.4 GB? Generally its people's music or picture folder, depending whether they have a lot of pictures or songs. If you don't have anything that's unnecessary in your homespace I would recommend getting an external drive (personally I like the firewire powered ones 'cause then I don't have to worry about having an extra outlet). If you have any questions about something that seems to big, don't hesitate to ask. HTH.
-NifflerX

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Not only this problem, there is too many problems with this windows 8.1! Too many! You definitely made the worst thing ever!
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No Karen, I didn't resolve the issue.
I asked very simple question how to change something so basic like user folder name in Windows 8.1
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All the links you are giving to me doesn't provide any concrete answer to this question. I spent hours and hours googling and researching about this question and only solution which i found is that i need to create completely new user account and delete completely
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