Moving User Folder in Windows 7

You shouldn`t move it you should link it, because now you`ll screw up your images.

You are creating disk images yes ???

I looked, but someone else will have to post the proper tutorial.

I just create folders on my storage drives, and store my data in the appropriate folder.

You do not want to move your user folder.

I highly recommend following AddRAM's advice in not moving User folders; there will be consequences if/when any OS upgrade / restore operations are put into play. I have been doing for years what AddRAM recommends, create your data folders in your data partition or your data hard-drive, "tell" your products to save, copy, move, write to, etc. to your created data folders. And, copy [then delete] your data files out of Users [user acct] AppData / Libraries folders over into your created data folders. This bit of much work upfront will save you lots and lots of headaches, problems, later on -- especially if/when doing OS restores, upgrades, and maybe even some update operations.

So far I have moved the following folders (from c:\Users\Mike\): My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, Downloads and Desktop to a new location. I have done it simply by changing the target folder on the Location tab. I am not planning to move the AppData folder since it is hidden and seems too risky to me. Am I on the right track?

Well, we told you not to do that, so you are on the wrong track.

You need to link those folders, not move them, I suggested that you wait until someone posted the tutorial because I could not find it.

I hope you made a restore point before you started or created a disk image.