users on d

[bobthenob]

Hi thanks for a great forum

its helped me out loads

I set my users folder to D:

  </FirstLogonCommands>
- <Display>
  <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> 
  <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution> 
  <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution> 
  </Display>
- <FolderLocations>
  <ProfilesDirectory>D:\Users</ProfilesDirectory> 
  </FolderLocations>
  </component>

which works fine for my uattended dvd my user is set as owner

if i format c then reinstall

my user becomes owner.mrcomputer (the name i used for computer name in unattended.xml)

is there any way around this other than

add a user (temp)logon to new user Temp

delete owner.mrcomputer

rename owner to owner.mrcomputer

[MrJinje]

you cannot perform a re-install and expect to use an older profile immediately during the install process. When the Owner account is created on the re-install it finds the old Owner folder (d:\Users\Owner) already exists and instead is forced to use %username%.%computername%. This is by design and there is no known work-around.

The solution is either fully rename/delete the (d:\Users\Owner) before re-installing from media.

Or instead of moving the entire user profile, could try the shell folders registry tweak and only move the desktop/my docs/favorites as needed. This would behave in the manner you are accustomed too.

Yet another solution is to capture your image with (acronis, ghost, imagex, whatever) and instead of re-installing, just restore the baseline. This is faster than re-installing and IMO is the best method of the three.

[bobthenob]

thanks for your reply

i thought as much cheers