Default profile location windows 7

Archived Forums. Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment. Sign in to vote. Hi is there any way to change the default user folder location to different dirve in windows 7?

I know vista didn't have that either but i have been following Josh's method Change User Profile Folder Location in Vista « Joshua Mouch I am about to start testing to see if it works in 7 and hopefully tweak it if it doesn't work just thought if anyone has done b4 me. Regards K. So far, so good. I can delete the "new" ones, but it's starting to be somewhat of a PITA I think your solution may be to either switch off the "library" feature if possible or change the Default Location for these libraries to the D drive also.

Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Windows 7: How to change location of a profile's folders? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 1 month ago. Active 11 years, 11 months ago. The above mention steps should be performed with great care as any mistake could lead to major problem.

How to Import Outlook Calendar to Yandex? Related Posts. All good. I was worried that it would try to restore everything back to their exact original locations that would be bad which included some things on the C: drive AppData and whatnot and the rest to the D: drive Desktop, Downloads, My Documents, etc… It did not.

It took into account that everything from the old profile should now be placed in the new profile location. Custom settings transferred too. I think the only thing I had to fix was what default programs I wanted certain file types to open with.

No big deal. However, Migration Wizard allows you to restore to a different profile name if you want. I think it was under some advanced button or something during the restore. Hmm, this ended up being much longer than I intended. Anyway, hope all that answer the question and helps someone. Thanks for laying this out step-by-step. I have two questions for you:. First, did you have any problems with applications that reference the original path for user profile?

Second, I stumbled upon what appears to be a Windows 7 option for this exact operation, but was curious whether anyone else had tried this and if so with what results. Done it a while back for someone on Vista to leave him with an image so he could restore his PC to the state I handed it to him and his data would be kept on a different partition.

Followed the instructions as shown by you, just that when i copied the folders from C: to D: I ran the Explorer as Admin. Now I'm asking myself how I could delete that C:Users folder, after I have created a new Admin account with which I intend to work and having deleted that, let me call it admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation as I see no need for it any more?

When I try to do so, I'm getting an error message regarding the libraries, those meta-folders. When i double click the admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation user folder it's empty, still showing a lock on it though.

It tried to become the owner with the according right to do so, not sure what I did there and if it worked but still can't delete it — still that library error message — won't let me remove the whole folder. I don't think copying profiles from one drive to another would move everything over ideally. It may still leave things behind in the original folder. I would suggest leaving these folders as they are. Hope they don't bother you too much. At least, they haven't bothered me.

Great tips here guys! I could also use some help. What I want to do is just have the essential Windows files on the SSD and keep everything else the same. I think you understand what I am asking here? I dont think ur instructions are very clear after all, am I supposed to create a new folder in the new directory called User, and then copy the Default folder and Public Folders to it?

I have one concern, can I have the profiles in D drive where D is protected by bitlock encryption? When I use this method, I get an error when I set up a new user and then try to log into that new user.

It says that it cannot access the new user's profile location, that it might be on another network etc. I look in the users directory and there is no folder created for the new user. I even tried resetting the permissions on the new users folder 'e:users' to match those for the c:users folder and subfolders , but this didn't help either.

Any thoughts? Wanted to do this just to have my user profile and more importantly the appdata directory on my mechanical 1. After installing win 7, changed just the 'profilesdirectory' setting from the default to d:users. Created a new account. Logged into it and then changed the registry setting back to default. Then started to install programs. Then ran into an issue that I did not have before when running the with my user profile on the c: drive in win 7.

That is that some programs that worked, now complain that they cannot write to the HDD. Speedfan gives errors after it's detection run, saying it cannot write to various files. COD says 'Modern warefare 2could not write a file. The hard drive is probably full'.

But if I run them both as administrator or change the permissions of their directories in Program Files x86 to allow users write access no more error messages. Also to test further I created another account using the default registry settings, so put's the account in the c:users dir.

When I log into this account I no longer have to mess around with running as admin or changing permissions to get these to programs to work. They work in the default non admin, user mode. Am not desperate to install any more programs while this issue exists. Thanks for the tip. A copy from the GUI won't do this. Without that you can run into troubles; i. I just did the same thing. In addition, all the applications in the start menu went missing. And you didn't see any pics available when you created the user.

All fixed now. But I created my new user with that mistake — going to kill and recreate the user anew just in case! I just tried this fix on Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit and it did not work. I have a new Windows 7 system and there is no possibility this will work.

Even though I boot up in a different account, when I try to copy the account I want copied from within the User Profiles window, the Copy To button is disabled.