How t move user accounts off C drive (Win 7)

kenej2005

kenej2005

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Hi folks,

I've recently installed Win 7 on my machine (two hard drives with 2 partitions each).

When I've set the user accounts up it's placed them all on the C drive which has the OS and all my applications.

I'd like to move the user accounts (3 of them) to another disc so that my c drive stays clean.

I can't see anything in Win 7 UAC that lets me do this so I tried just copying and pasting the user account folders from the c drive to my G.

I then tried deleting the original C drive user accounts but it's not allowing me to do so (keeps saying they're in use by another program). They also have small padlock icons against them in the c drive directory display.

Guidance appreciated.

But go easy folks - I'm a newby to all this! :-)

Cheers

Jon.
 
If you want to move the location of the profiles then have a look at the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, that should have ProfilesDirectory key which is where profiles will be created.

Be warned though that you should leave things like Default User, All Users and the Administrator profiles on the C: drive as it can cause problems, the one I found was that if for whatever reason the profiles disk was unavailable then even the Admin user couldn't log on as the system knew that the user had an existing profile which it couldn't load.

Another option is to move things like My Documents, My Music, My Pictures etc but right-clicking and then selecting Location but you'd have to do this per folder and per user.
 
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