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Moving Documents and Settings Folder


toy4x4

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By far the easiest way is to use the "ProfilesDir" option in winnt.sif.  Just set ProfileDirs=<whatever>.  I personally have a second partition, and so do
ProfilesDir=D:\

I have partitions that houses most of my stuff that remains un touched. Generally will the Drive Letters remain the same when installing XP Pro from scratch on the boot drive?

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TweakUI is your friend. It allows you to change all the Windows Special Folders...

(For an all-ready up and running system, for an unattended install, you have to modify your registry hive.)

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Here is the microsoft proscribed way to do it

This is my redirect.reg file

[Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=Reg.Settings

[Reg.Settings] HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders,Personal,0x20000,"%PERSONAL%"
HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders,My Pictures,0x20000,"%PICTURES%"

[Strings]
PERSONAL = "\\DC1\Shared\%USERNAME%\My Documents"
PICTURES = "\\DC1\Shared\%USERNAME%\My Documents\My Pictures"

This method can be used for multiple users as well.

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AFAIK, that moves "My Pictures" but does not touch "Documents and Settings"

In fact, Microsoft's recommended way of changing this after installation involves searching the registry and replacing every instance of "C:\Documents and Settings" with whtever you want. See this article.

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