PURPOSE
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Profile Relocator is a step-based application that allows the re-locating of the Windows Users profile directory. Once re-located, any created profiles will appear in the new location in their entirety. The advantage to doing this allows profiles to be stored in a location that doesn't reside on the system drive, ensuring that profile data isn't compromised as a result of re-installation or system failure.
Profile Relocator has been designed to work with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.
USAGE
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The application contains the required information on how it works, but below is a brief recap on what you should do. Please note that if the "re-installing Windows" step doesn't apply to you, you can just create the new account from your current account. Unfortunately this means you will not be able to create the new account using your current account's name.
If you're just about to re-install Windows, you should create an account when prompted by Windows during the Windows installation phase using a temporary name. Do not use the name you would like your permanent account to have. For example, use an account name of Test.
Once you've been logged into your temporary account (or main account if you did not re-install Windows), do not install anything except for Profile Relocator. Run PR, read and agree to the the disclaimer in the first step, then select the location you would like all future-created Windows profiles to be located in and click Start.
Once the relocation process has finished, click Finish.
Restart your PC and log back into your temporary account and create your new profile using the User Accounts control panel applet, using the original account name that you wanted. Check the profile destination you entered in PR above and you should see the newly created account in that location.
Log out of your current temporary account and then into the newly created account. Once you have ensured the account is working as intended (no errors being reported by Windows upon login), feel free to delete the temporary account (eg. Temp) that you just logged out of as it is no longer required.
Profile Relocator does not support the location change of existing profiles as is much more risky due to the required number of steps and their complexity.