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Moving \Users folder ... Is this a reasonable approach?
I essentially skipped Vista completely (bought it with the hardware, installed it, then discarded it) and started with the 7000 beta. Am currently toying with 7077 on a new, 3-week-old monster machine that needs to shift into productive use very soon.
Moving the "Documents and Settings" folder was easy back in XP days. It appears to be a lot more complicated now. However, after a bit of reading, I've come up with the following:
- Clean install (in this case, 7077 x64) as user 'username'
- Enable 'Administrator' account
- Log out of 'username' and log into 'Administrator'
- Continue with computer setup using the 'Administrator' account
- Delete both the account and files for 'username'
- Hack the registry to alter the location for new user accounts
- -- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList]
- -- Replace '%SystemDrive%\Users' with 'D:\Users' for the 'ProfilesDirectory' key
- Create a new account for 'username' with admin privileges which appears as D:\Users\username\...
- Log out of the 'Administrator' account (leaving it active and located in the C:\Users folder)
- Log into the new 'username' admin account and go about business as usual.
- (There will be four additional non-admin accounts created on this machine -- all of them located in the D:\Users folder.)
My question is: Does this seem a valid approach to separating the Users folder from the system drive? Or, am I setting myself up for problems?