I've put Vista back on an old laptop someone accidentaly gave me. (don't ask!)
On my own PC, after installing W7 and creating an initial administrator user, I was able to edit a registry key and create a second user, whose folders were in d:\Users\<user-name> rather than c:\Users\<user-name>
I used regedit and navigated to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
and changed the value of ProfilesDirectory from %SystemDir%\Users to E:\users.
I didn't change anything else including the Public and Default keys.
I created a new user, logged off, logged in as the new user and it created my folders in E:\Users\<new-user>.
Will these instructions work for Vista or is it more complicated?
Note, I am happy having the original user in C:\Users but when I create my main user I want the user folders to be in D:\Users.
On my own PC, after installing W7 and creating an initial administrator user, I was able to edit a registry key and create a second user, whose folders were in d:\Users\<user-name> rather than c:\Users\<user-name>
I used regedit and navigated to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
and changed the value of ProfilesDirectory from %SystemDir%\Users to E:\users.
I didn't change anything else including the Public and Default keys.
I created a new user, logged off, logged in as the new user and it created my folders in E:\Users\<new-user>.
Will these instructions work for Vista or is it more complicated?
Note, I am happy having the original user in C:\Users but when I create my main user I want the user folders to be in D:\Users.