Changing the location of Users

sjcf1 · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:03

Hi,

Is there anyway of changing the drive or folder where C:\users\ is stored on windows 7. Would like to move the file to another drive to free up space on the boot drive. Though I can't see anyway of doing it through explorer like you can do with other files.

Does anyone know a relatively easy way of doing this?

Thanks In advance.

SiriusB · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:10

http://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7

sjcf1 · 16 Oct 2010 at 20:32

Thanks for that, seems slightly easier than I thought it would be.

SiriusB · 17 Oct 2010 at 01:15

A bit pointless though to be honest. You can easily move the individual folders, such as Documents, Music etc elsewhere. The rest of the User folder rarely has anthing large in it - unless your temp folders start filling up [CCleaner will sort that!].

Seems like unecessary effort for very little gain. It's your computer though, so knock yourself out!