chessonly Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Basically what I want to do is move the location of C:\users to E:\users I know that individual folders(c:\users\username\music) can be moved by rightclick > properties > location , but that is obviously too slow. I tried registry editing . but that didn't work ( I have no idea why)In short the "userprofile" environment variable is needs to be changed. Googling around suggested this can be done through group policy, but for some moronic reason group-policy is disabled in home premium!Help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netman66 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 It's disabled because it's not for a domain environment - as was XP Home.Copy the Profile directory to the new drive.Your registry hack should work now provided you have all the keys set correctly.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell FoldersShould be where it's set. I don't seem to see any others that may interfere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netman66 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 I found some others.HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell FoldersThese are created from HKEY_USERS\.default but expanded once a new profile is created and stuffed into HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessonly Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 Thanks for the replies.I'll try them nowOne question will this work for multiple users? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netman66 Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 If they have no profile already, then it should.If they already have a profile, then you'll need to log in as them and modify the HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys pointing to the new location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessonly Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 Doesn't works...Thanks , but I'll leave it at this *regrets getting original vista* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeronimo Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 I also set the entries under "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]". Although these are not strings, but defined in hex-format (REG_EXPAND_SZ). This worked fine for me for the following settings:"My Video", "My Pictures", "Desktop", "Favorites", "Start Menu", "My Music", "Programs", "Startup", "Administrative Tools", "Personal" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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