Windows 7 - moving the 'Users' folder from c: to another drive

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Hi people

I have done the steps explained above. All works ok apart from various little problems that I have notice every now and then. For example, if I go to Devices and Printers, the page stays blank and seems to continue to load forever. My programs also have a tendancy to become more unstable and crash more often.

Have anyone else noticed things like these ?
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Please don't hack the registry if you are not completely sure what you are doing, and NEVER EVER do it as admin for an enterprise.

It can get you fired double quick.

I'm pretty sure a Symbolic Link would work, my Program Files and Program Files (x86) folders are on a seperate drive to Windows on my box with no complaints at all.

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no need for that, you just change the environment variables to point to your program files folders.

Unfortunately I can only delete mine, not copy to.

Would it be easier and less risky to add your data/document locations to the 'Libraries' and make them the default location? This is what I did. I do not have any thing in the C:/Users/ locations.

Exactly my thoughts. Well done Junior Member

hmm
actually i have done this (actually did this for the beta) and it does work but dont move any other accounts (such as the system accounts) as this sometimes upsets updates...

On my old vista install I had a few directories from my user directory (Documents etc) moved onto another partition with the change location settings in the "Documents" etc properties dialog.

This worked well except some programs didn't obey the new setting and still stored stuff in the old Douments folder location, creating a new folder in the process. I got around this my making a symbolic link from the old Douments location to the new one and hiding it ...

Now I see that the easier way would be to move the entire Users directory to the separate partion and make a new symbolic link to it in the old location.

eg:

cd c:\
xcopy c:\Users\*.* d:\Users /e /i /h
rmdir /s c:\Users
mklink /d Users d:\Users

But before I go ahead and wreck my computer... I just deleted the My Documents folder before and had a hard time getting it back - I had to create a new folder called Documents and then use restore ... has anyone done this and does it work? Have I used the right switches to make sure everything is copied over?

copy everything to the 2nd hd, and mount the hd's partition as the users folder using the disk management tool