Changing Application Data Location?
- Thread starter Nazca
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Are you talking about the user profiles or the user Document and Settings folder?
For profiles have a look at the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
That has the defaults used when a new user is created and has SID based keys for exisiting users and where their profiles are. Leave the admin user on the C: drive else if the D: drive dies you won't be able to login even as admin. I'd move a user at a time, after changing the above registry values, you'll then need to mount the users registry hive using regedit and look for all occurences of the old profile path and edit it to the new.
Then copy over the users profile, make sure the hidden and system files option is unticked in Explorer Tools-> Options to ensure that all files are copied then try and login as the user.
Do a user at a time and if you get it wrong then you may end up with a new user profile for that user in the new profiles location.
It is quite a pain to do for existing users.
For profiles have a look at the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
That has the defaults used when a new user is created and has SID based keys for exisiting users and where their profiles are. Leave the admin user on the C: drive else if the D: drive dies you won't be able to login even as admin. I'd move a user at a time, after changing the above registry values, you'll then need to mount the users registry hive using regedit and look for all occurences of the old profile path and edit it to the new.
Then copy over the users profile, make sure the hidden and system files option is unticked in Explorer Tools-> Options to ensure that all files are copied then try and login as the user.
Do a user at a time and if you get it wrong then you may end up with a new user profile for that user in the new profiles location.
It is quite a pain to do for existing users.