Windows 7 Tweak ui equivalent

buachille

buachille

buachille

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Hi,

I always have all my data saved on a different hard drive from the os.

I have already changed the location of document in windows 7 to documents on my D drive, but windows 7 is still putting some info in the c\users\me\documents folder. This happens when I install new programs, not when I save my own files.

How can I totallly over-ride this. Is there a good safe spyware free program like tweak ui for xp that will allow me to tell windows 7 that EVERYTHING that is meant to go into documents will go into d:\me\documents??

Hope someone can help. :D

Otherwise, very happy with windows 7. Everything I have installed on it has worked perfectly, and i'm using the 64 bit version too.

Cheers
 
There is a registry setting to change your profile folder from the C:\Users\ folder to another location. Its something like %USERPROFILE%, but ull have to google it. You can either change where the main %USERPROFILE% shortcut points, or their are individual paths or each of the folders within the default users folder that you can set (this is what ive done. Documents are on one drive, Downloads are somewhere else, Music is an external, etc etc)
 
littledave said:
See here http://www.windows7hacker.com/index...e-user-profile-default-location-in-windows-7/
Click to expand...

I nearly went through with that but, as mentioned in the guys post, if you have a lot set up already it involves a lot more steps so I decided to play it safe.

Why did ms stop producing tweak ui. It was perfect for this. I've got the system working well enough anyway, but I'd just like C:\users\me out of the way. I never used it on xp and I have all my backups setup to backup my D drive. I take images of my C drive in case of a disaster, but my D drive is backed up with a much more advanced program as it contains all the important stuff.

Thanks for everybody's replies though.
 
Agreed.

If id had found it earlier I would have gone through with it also. For now untill my next reload i have manually moved all the folders in C:\Users\ME to my D:\ME
 
Best way to do what you want is using an NTFS junction, that's how I have mine set up.

A junction is basically a system level shortcut. For example I have a junction from C:\Users\Craig => D:\Users\Craig. Windows still sees C:\Users\Craig and writes everything it needs there, however it is really going to D:\Users\Craig ;). I also keep all my data on D:\ which is backed up daily so I have nothing important stored on C:\ as it's RAID0.

If you want you could even have a "/home partition" as mentioned above. You'd simple create a new partition and create a junction from C:\Users\YourUsername => x:\Users\YourUsername.

I recommend playing around with junctions before you start moving your user profile around. Make a junction from e.g. your desktop to another hard drive, or to another location just so you understand how it works.

http://www.starkeith.net/coredump/2009/05/18/how-to-move-your-windows-user-profile-to-another-drive/
 
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