Renaming a WSL Distro

I Recently had the need to change the name of one of the Distro’s on my WSL Environment, this is the process I followed to rename it.

1. Stop all instances of WSL

   wsl --shutdown
   

2. Open Registry Editor and go to

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss
   

3. Find the distro you want to rename, look for the key

   DistributionName
   

4. Change the key DistributionName to the desired value

5. Verify by running the following

   wsl -l -v
   

   This will list the running Distros