Can user directories be moved from C: to another disk or not ?

Help !! - I've spent the last week battling with dual booting
XPPro32b+Vista32b and boot.ini vs BCDEdit and getting Media Ctr to work
properly with my TV and HDMI Graphics cards and IRtrans MCE interface and all
that, and now I find that MCE is filling up my already half full (Vista)
primary partition with recorded TV and all that, in user/public, when I have
a 500Gb RAID data disk sitting there twiddling its thumbs. As far as I can
see from all the stuff I've trawled through on the internet and KB and this
discussion group - it might be time to give up on Vista pending SP2! unless
someone can tell me how to move C:\users to somewhere sensible. (eg -
E:\data\users)
Thanks - I'm at my wits end with this ****.

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You can go into the TV settings in Media Center and select any drive to
record TV shows to. You are not limited to the users\public\Recorded TV
folder as the location of your recorded content.

You can also change the locations of various folders to any location
available. Such folders such as "documents" and "downloads".
You can right click documents and select properties and you will find a
location tab.


"PorterHouse" <> wrote in message
news:7481599D-5DF4-4CC8-B98E-...
> Help !! - I've spent the last week battling with dual booting
> XPPro32b+Vista32b and boot.ini vs BCDEdit and getting Media Ctr to work
> properly with my TV and HDMI Graphics cards and IRtrans MCE interface and
> all
> that, and now I find that MCE is filling up my already half full (Vista)
> primary partition with recorded TV and all that, in user/public, when I
> have
> a 500Gb RAID data disk sitting there twiddling its thumbs. As far as I can
> see from all the stuff I've trawled through on the internet and KB and
> this
> discussion group - it might be time to give up on Vista pending SP2!
> unless
> someone can tell me how to move C:\users to somewhere sensible. (eg -
> E:\data\users)
> Thanks - I'm at my wits end with this ****.
>
> --
>
> System - Selfbuilt:
> Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
> 1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP 32bit
> +
> Vista HomePrem 32bit

PorterHouse;561329 Wrote:
> Help !! - I've spent the last week battling with dual booting
> XPPro32b+Vista32b and boot.ini vs BCDEdit and getting Media Ctr to work
> properly with my TV and HDMI Graphics cards and IRtrans MCE interface
> and all
> that, and now I find that MCE is filling up my already half full
> (Vista)
> primary partition with recorded TV and all that, in user/public, when I
> have
> a 500Gb RAID data disk sitting there twiddling its thumbs. As far as I
> can
> see from all the stuff I've trawled through on the internet and KB and
> this
> discussion group - it might be time to give up on Vista pending SP2!
> unless
> someone can tell me how to move C:\users to somewhere sensible. (eg -
> E:\data\users)
> Thanks - I'm at my wits end with this ****.
>
> --
>
> System - Selfbuilt:
> Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
> 1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP
> 32bit +
> Vista HomePrem 32bit

Hi PorterHouse,

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but it should help if it is.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...-location.html

Shawn


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Gary,
Hi - thanks for bothering to offer advice.
Yes - I realise that and I have since moved the destination for MCE to my
larger drive but it automatically creates a path to 'X:\Recorded TV' whereas
when it is sending it to C: it goes instead to the public dir of
C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV, which presumably uses the default home path of
'public' user ?
This worries me as it tells me that I'm going to end up with inconsistent
behavior between MS apps from now to eternity.

Also, I have see some suggestions from people to modify the registry key:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\ProfileList
>>Public (sub-key) and set this to the new location for 'X:\users\public'...then reboot.

This sounds sensible except that I've also seen advice from a Microsoft
Employee telling us not to do this or it will be unsupported and will
doubtless break due to future upgrades/patches.

After spending a man week frigging around with Vista just to get it working
(and even now Vista tells me periodically that I have no TV tuner and I have
to pull the card again, re-install the driver, reboot, pray, etc) I'm hoping
some one can tell me THE way to do rather than Options A,B and C.

I have even seen someone suggest to simply cut and paste users\public from
C:\ to another drive. Sounds too easy for Microsoft and so I'm loathed to try
it unless lots of people already have.

Any futher comments ?

Rgds





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"Gary Mount" wrote:

> You can go into the TV settings in Media Center and select any drive to
> record TV shows to. You are not limited to the users\public\Recorded TV
> folder as the location of your recorded content.
>
> You can also change the locations of various folders to any location
> available. Such folders such as "documents" and "downloads".
> You can right click documents and select properties and you will find a
> location tab.
>
>
> "PorterHouse" <> wrote in message
> news:7481599D-5DF4-4CC8-B98E-...
> > Help !! - I've spent the last week battling with dual booting
> > XPPro32b+Vista32b and boot.ini vs BCDEdit and getting Media Ctr to work
> > properly with my TV and HDMI Graphics cards and IRtrans MCE interface and
> > all
> > that, and now I find that MCE is filling up my already half full (Vista)
> > primary partition with recorded TV and all that, in user/public, when I
> > have
> > a 500Gb RAID data disk sitting there twiddling its thumbs. As far as I can
> > see from all the stuff I've trawled through on the internet and KB and
> > this
> > discussion group - it might be time to give up on Vista pending SP2!
> > unless
> > someone can tell me how to move C:\users to somewhere sensible. (eg -
> > E:\data\users)
> > Thanks - I'm at my wits end with this ****.
> >
> > --
> >
> > System - Selfbuilt:
> > Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
> > 1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP 32bit
> > +
> > Vista HomePrem 32bit
>

Brink,
Hi.
Thanks for your advice but the link you sent refers to moving a specific
user (in the example its 'everyday') whereas I think the scenario for
'public' is quite different as it has shared and default properties.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this applies.
Thanks anyway.


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Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP 32bit +
Vista HomePrem 32bit


"brink" wrote:

>
> PorterHouse;561329 Wrote:
> > Help !! - I've spent the last week battling with dual booting
> > XPPro32b+Vista32b and boot.ini vs BCDEdit and getting Media Ctr to work
> > properly with my TV and HDMI Graphics cards and IRtrans MCE interface
> > and all
> > that, and now I find that MCE is filling up my already half full
> > (Vista)
> > primary partition with recorded TV and all that, in user/public, when I
> > have
> > a 500Gb RAID data disk sitting there twiddling its thumbs. As far as I
> > can
> > see from all the stuff I've trawled through on the internet and KB and
> > this
> > discussion group - it might be time to give up on Vista pending SP2!
> > unless
> > someone can tell me how to move C:\users to somewhere sensible. (eg -
> > E:\data\users)
> > Thanks - I'm at my wits end with this ****.
> >
> > --
> >
> > System - Selfbuilt:
> > Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
> > 1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP
> > 32bit +
> > Vista HomePrem 32bit
>
> Hi PorterHouse,
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but it should help if it is.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...-location.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
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>
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PorterHouse;561804 Wrote:
> Brink,
> Hi.
> Thanks for your advice but the link you sent refers to moving a
> specific
> user (in the example its 'everyday') whereas I think the scenario for
> 'public' is quite different as it has shared and default properties.
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this applies.
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
> --
>
> System - Selfbuild:
> Zalman HD160 HTPC, ASUS P5N32ESLi Mobo, Intel Q6600, 2Gb OCZ Rapier,
> 1xGeforce 8600GT, ComproT750 DVB-T Tuner, IRTrans MCE, Dual boot XP
> 32bit +
> Vista HomePrem 32bit
>
>
> "brink" wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > PorterHouse;561329 Wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi PorterHouse,
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but it should help if it is.
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...-location.html
> > >
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > brink
> > >
> > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> > > '*Vista Forums*'
> > > (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> > > *Please post feedback to help others.*
> > > > >

PorterHouse,

I would not change the "Public" folder. It has to many things attached
to it since it is the default for all user accounts. Doing so may cause
alot of unforseen problems.

Shawn


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