[Question] Separating Documents from Settings

[darkosiris]

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but I've already learnt a lot of things here about windows tricks, tweaks and stuff. I'm trying to create an unattended windows install with a twist. I'm trying out an alternative filesystem hierarchy. It looks something like this:

\Programs - This is Program Files

\Users - Users' personal files (has subfolders for each user)

\SYSTEM - The Windows directory

\Files - Users' settings (has subfolders for each user)

\Depot - For storing users' files (mainly anything, not restricted)

The main idea is to split Documents and Settings into two separate directories.

e.g.: C:\Users\darkosiris\Documents or C:\Users\darkosiris\Pictures

and: C:\Files\darkosiris\Cookies or C:\Files\darkosiris\AppData

I've tried to achive this by messing up the whole registry, without any success. The I've tried to just set %USERPROFILE% to C:\Files and the create symlinks in C:\Users to the folders in Files. None of them works fine.

My questions are:

1.) Can I do this by messing with system settings and can I make an unattended install that would set it up for me?

2.) If I choose to use the symlinks alternative, can I make the symlink creation automatic (upon install and new account creation)?

Thanks for any help or ideas.

darkosiris