Relocating User profile

I right-click on one of the folders (Documents, Music...) one by one change the location in the "Location" tab. Then I log out after I enabled the hidden administrator account. I then copy "AppData" to the other partition after that opening Command Prompt I create a junction point in the old location: "mklink /J C:\Users\[username]\AppData D:\User\AppData" Done deal. Oh I leave the ntuser stuff where it is at. No point in messing with the Registry portions.

If you're talking about moving the User folders (Documents, Pictures, etc) to another partition all I've ever done with Windows 7 and past versions is select all the folders I wish to move in one drive and then using the right mouse key drag and drop them to the desired drive or partition.

For example in my screenshots: if I wanted to move the 9 selected folders in Drive E: onto Drive D: I would select them, drag them across with the right mouse button and upon releasing the button I get a context menu from which I select "Move here".





The only thing I stick to is that I've found that the actual User folder itself (Windows/Users/yourname) must remain on the C: or Boot Drive.

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There is the tutorial at the link below.

User Folders - Change Default Location

Check this link out: Moving "Users" folder location to another drive/partition

Bare Foot Kid said:

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There is the tutorial at the link below.

User Folders - Change Default Location

We have our onw tutorial here at Seven Forums; thanks.

This from said tutorial.

   Tip

Moving a user folder and it's contents to be stored at another location can be handy if you wanted or needed to save hard drive space on the C: drive.

I succeeded in creating a new User profile on my E:\ partition. I was guided by this article:
Change User Profile Folder Location in Vista Joshua Mouch

My job was considerably simpler than the author's since I was starting with a new Windows 7 install and had no applications to deal with.

Here are the steps I used:
1. Copy the original Default Profile directory to the new location (ie C:\Users\Default to E:\Users\Default)
2. Copy the original Public Profile directory to the new location (ie, C:\Users\Public to E:\Users\Public)
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. Change the value of the Default key to the new user profile location (ie, E:\Users\Default)
5. Change the value of the Public key to the new user profile location (ie, E:\Users\Public)
6. Change the value of the ProfilesDirectory to the new user profile location (ie, E:\Users)
7. Enable the administrator account:

• a. Activate 'administrative tools' in Start Menu
• b. Start Computer Management
• c. Click on Local Users & Groups / Users
• d. Right click on Administrator and select properties
• e. Uncheck the box labeled 'Account is disabled'

8. Reboot and log into Administrator account
9. Profile should now be located in E:\
10. Reboot and then delete Orig_Account account created during Windows install (Control Panel/User Accounts)
11. Delete folder C:\Users\Orig_Account
12. Configure password and picture for Administrator account

Hello prroots, did you not see my post above for Windows 7 instructions?