Want help to permanently move User folders in Windows Vista
I need some help to permanently move the User folders to some other location in Windows Vista. Like the default users folders lies in the C drive. Which is Windows directory. I want to move that to the other drive. I tried to cut paste them but it did not worked. I am sure there would be some way by which I can put them in the separate partition.
Moving Vista user doucments folder
I can provide you some simple steps to move the special folders. This contains My Documents. You can put them in other partition and it works fine. To change the drive path follow the below steps:
- Right click on My Documents
- Click on Properties
- Click on Location
- Then click Move and choose the folder
- Click on Apply > and click yes to put the new location.
- Click OK and done.
The second method to do the same is through Windows registry. The method is mentioned above but it is not complete. The completes steps are :
- Click on Start > type regedit and hit enter.
- Go to -- HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders
- Double click on the folder name and modify the value as per your need.
- Close registry edition and reboot your system.
re: Want help to permanently move User folders in Windows Vista
It looks to be a bit complicated what is mentioned above. I am sure there would be some way by which you can do that in easier way. Your default user profiles are configured on the windows partition. Moving them to some other place might be complicated.
re: Want help to permanently move User folders in Windows Vista
Sorry for pointing back to an old thread, but am having a miserable time here trying to move Vista/Win7 profiles. In XP, it was quite simple. Move the entire Docs & Settings folder to another drive, create a junction pointing c:\docs & settings to the new drive and you were done. Relatively easy stuff (a few intermediate steps left out for brievity). Now in Vista, I can use almost the same hack, with the one exception that when I move the Users folder to a seperate drive, none of the OS junctions contained within the profiles are moved as well. I have tried to recreate them by hand, but can't seem to get the right combination of ACLs and attributes to make them exist exactly as they were prior to the move. After recreating the junctions, they do not get hidden when "Hide Operating System Files" is enabled. THe original profile junctions do not have the system or hidden attributes set, and yet they are still hidden. Does anyone know how I can recreate these profiles (including junctions!) on another drive?