Users folders in another driver/partition
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What the method that you use to move your XP "Documents and Settings" and/or Vista "Users" folders to another drive/partition? I was reading that articles: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasetup/thread/91aa8b26-2b09-4e56-955c-679b297832e1/[^] http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/[^] ... what suggests a walk (21 steps!) to accomplish this. Another "tech" is to use hardlinks on Vista. What the method that you use? Thanks!
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What the method that you use to move your XP "Documents and Settings" and/or Vista "Users" folders to another drive/partition? I was reading that articles: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasetup/thread/91aa8b26-2b09-4e56-955c-679b297832e1/[^] http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/[^] ... what suggests a walk (21 steps!) to accomplish this. Another "tech" is to use hardlinks on Vista. What the method that you use? Thanks!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
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What the method that you use to move your XP "Documents and Settings" and/or Vista "Users" folders to another drive/partition?
I do the following - 1. Display Properties 2. Desktop Tab 3. Click Customize Desktop... 4. Select My Documents 5. Click Apply then OK 6. Right click My Documents 7. Click Properties... 8. Target Tab 9. Enter your Drive and Directory om Target 10. Click Apply then OK 11. Display Properties 12. Desktop Tab 13. Click Customize Desktop... 14. Deselect My Documents 15. Click K 16. Click Apply then OK Didn't look at your link so I may have given you the same directions.
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What the method that you use to move your XP "Documents and Settings" and/or Vista "Users" folders to another drive/partition? I was reading that articles: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasetup/thread/91aa8b26-2b09-4e56-955c-679b297832e1/[^] http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/[^] ... what suggests a walk (21 steps!) to accomplish this. Another "tech" is to use hardlinks on Vista. What the method that you use? Thanks!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
I boot into BartPE and use xcopy to copy it to the drive I want, delete the original, then recreate the original as a junction to the other drive using the sysinternals tool. The parameters I use with xcopy go something like this.... xcopy "Documents and Settings" "H:\Documents and Settings\" /E /V /H /K /O /X I've never got any of the other approaches to work (in XP, don't know about vista) - there are always files that refuse to be copied even in safe mode, plus registry entries pointing to C:\ keep coming back.
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What the method that you use to move your XP "Documents and Settings" and/or Vista "Users" folders to another drive/partition? I was reading that articles: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasetup/thread/91aa8b26-2b09-4e56-955c-679b297832e1/[^] http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/[^] ... what suggests a walk (21 steps!) to accomplish this. Another "tech" is to use hardlinks on Vista. What the method that you use? Thanks!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
My trick is not to move them :)
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My trick is not to move them :)
Don't attribute to stupidity what can be equally well explained by buerocracy.
My latest article | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistI currently have my OS and Program Files on my solid state disk C: but my docs & settings junctioned (is that a word?) across to my regular hard disk H:. I also have the swapfile on H: and the windows\temp and windows\prefetch folders junctioned to H: Only just set this up though - seems OK so far though i'm still worried about too much temporary data being written out to the SSD. For example, City Life, a game that used to take over 5 minutes to load before I got my SSD actually took even longer to start after moving it to the SSD. I then did a bit of investigation and found out it was creating its own several gigabyte swapfile in its own folder in program files when running. I then played about with junctions, splitting the game with some parts of it on the hard disk and others on the SSD and it now loads in about 15-20 seconds :-D