Windows vista move users directory

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What are you looking for? Preferences Community Newsletters Log Out. Ed Bott Senior Contributing Editor Ed Bott is an award-winning technology writer with more than two decades' experience writing for mainstream media outlets and online publications. Full Bio. Click Start, Computer, and double-click the icon for your data drive E:, in this example. Type a name for the folder in which you want to store all your document folders.

For convenience, I use my user name, but you can choose any legal folder name. Double-click this folder to open it in the current window. Sorry if I am a bit slow but I don't understand everything written here too well but ready to learn. I have previously just dragged each users folder to a second D: hard drive, I think the Favourites and Contacts folders have issues.

I downloaded your software and did a scan and even though the shell folders have been moved it does not show anything on drive D: I have read the help but still feel out of my depth.

What I basically want is to move users folders to the Data drive and all new users to turn up in the Data drive. I have copied all the shell folders from Drive C to Drive D for user Ian but your software does not show that when I do a scan. I believe the most common request by far is people want to run an application after windows install an application that takes all user shell folders and place them on an alternate drive and create that as default for new users added.

They would also like this to have existing user content on the C: drive moved to the data drive at the same time. Failing that a step by step procedure would be great. Thanks for your time and without your forum post I would not be aware of this.

I was also interested in your indexing question but wouldn't you just index the drive the folders were the data exists, that is what I do currently. Ok that all sounds over my head. The drag shell folders to drive D seems to works for what I do. I image all drives with Acronis True Image. I have Windows home server for backing up all computers overnight and file duplication on for critical data and offsite backup using Jungle disk for important stuff.

The only time I have lost data several times is when I messed with different OS on the first drive. Since moving to a second or third drive for data I have never lost data only OS issues with multi boot and Acronis fixes that fast. All my mistakes occure after 1am in the early hours and it has been a big day and you accidentally click delete on something automatically without thinking :- I still think there is a market for someone to do the shell folders thing though as it is widely discussed.

I might also look at the registry settings some people are using. I was just wanting to do it right as I have 3 new computers and thought there must be a better way, I am fussy like that.

Thanks for your prompt reply. It can be done but if you run system restore or if you re-install the OS it will be complicated to get the old settings back. It is better if you leave the settings as it is.

Another best option is to keep a regular backup of user folders. A regular backup gives you instant way to restore the folders with few clicks. I assume you already have separate partition D:. There are two ways that I know of. You can do it by booting with installation DVD and also you can do it in installed Windows 8.

I recommend the second method as it is much faster. It became very easy in Windows 8 since you can invoke this within running Windows.

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