Please, allow to change C:\Users[\xxx] location

Please, add a feature, in a patch or sevice pack, to allow to change
simply the location of C:\Users, or C:\Users\OneUser folder location.

I have done many internet searches, this seems not to be possible
simply.

And don't tell me that I have to change each folder location (Music,
Pictures, and so on). This does not fit my need.

Thanks.

Over a year ago, I placed the User Profiles and Program Data (not
Program Files) on a separate partition using Windows AIK (Automated
Installation Kit), the only Microsoft approved method of doing so.

It's questionable whether whatever benefits (separate partition imaging,
etc.) I have derived from doing so outweigh the costs, namely broken
Vista components, including, but not limited to, UAC File
Virtualization.

Vista was apparently designed from a security standpoint to be a
single-partition OS, requiring each User Profile's AppData to reside on
the System partition for full and correct functionality.


"Fred" <frjm31-> wrote in message
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>
> Please, add a feature, in a patch or sevice pack, to allow to change
> simply the location of C:\Users, or C:\Users\OneUser folder location.
>
> I have done many internet searches, this seems not to be possible
> simply.
>
> And don't tell me that I have to change each folder location (Music,
> Pictures, and so on). This does not fit my need.
>
> Thanks.

Fred;670935 Wrote:
> Please, add a feature, in a patch or sevice pack, to allow to chang
> simply the location of C:\Users, or C:\Users\OneUser folder location
>
> I have done many internet searches, this seems not to be possibl
> simply
>
> And don't tell me that I have to change each folder location (Music
> Pictures, and so on). This does not fit my need
>
> Thanks

Why, exactly, do you want to move the entire "C:\Users\<USERNAME>
folder? For backup purposes? Other than the following folders, there i
nothing in there that cannot be recovered by a program re-install

- Contact
- Deskto
- *Documents
- *Downloads
- *Favorites
- Link
- *Music
- *Pictures
- Saved Game
- *Searches
- *Videos*Those that I've highlighted in Bold are the really important ones tha
are likely to contain data you'll want to backup. You can probabl
backup the Desktop folder also, if you're the kind of person tha
perpetually saves everything to a folder on the desktop

To backup your Windows Mail, then you can backup the folde
"C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windo ws Mail"

If you're using Microsoft Office, then the only other folder in ther
that is of any real value (in terms of backing up) is perhap
"C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlo ok". But then again
you can always tell Outlook to save your .PST files to another location

Again, other than those specific folders I've mentioned, there i
nothing in the "C:\Users\<USERNAME>" folder of any real value that ca
benefit from a backup. For one, your local registry settings are store
there too. The locations of these folder are also recorded in th
Registry. Where will Windows find your registry if you move the whol
thing to another place

Just leave things be, and only move those folders that have a specif
GUI interface that allows them to be moved - Your own user folders

--
Dzomlij

Peter Alexander Dzomlij
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And a
you die, so shall I be Reborn...

_*Prometheus*
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In article <>,
Dzomlija <> wrote:
>
>Why, exactly, do you want to move the entire "C:\Users\<USERNAME>"

Well, let's see...

- So I could do an OS restore/upgrade without losing user data?
- So I can let users fill up their disc space without causing
the OS to malfunction?
- So I can put the user file system on network storage?
- So I can back stuff up easier?
- Because I want to even though MS doesn't think I do?

"the wharf rat" <> wrote in message
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>>
>>Why, exactly, do you want to move the entire "C:\Users\<USERNAME>"
>
> Well, let's see...
>
> - So I could do an OS restore/upgrade without losing user data?
> - So I can let users fill up their disc space without causing
> the OS to malfunction?
> - So I can put the user file system on network storage?
> - So I can back stuff up easier?
> - Because I want to even though MS doesn't think I do?


I doubt a simpleton that puts everything he has on a single partition JBOD
array is going to understand the benefits of any of that.

Because Windows puts the user hive of the registry, %appdata% and other OS
installation specific hidden folders there, it's not possible to make your
system very modular, like in the way that /usr in Linux is totally
scaleable. I have however been able to get it done pretty well using
symbolic links on my own computers, putting them onto RAID 1, with the OS
partitions and Desktop on RAID 0.

You need Roaming User Profiles and Active Directory to do anything like that
in Windows, which is not something that any home user is going to use. It's
not even something that I have done in the small architectural firms who I
work with as a CAD consultant. They do not need that extra complexity and
expense of administration, so all data is just stored centrally on the
server. The workstations get messy over time with multiple user profiles,
with the users wanting their own settings on any computer they may be using.

ss.

Synapse Syndrome;670982 Wrote:
> I doubt a simpleton that puts everything he has on a single partitio
> JBOD array is going to understand the benefits of any of that

_-Excuse_me?-_

There is nothing wrong with using a JBOD setup. It just so happens tha
I lost some information there that had not yet been backed up. Not fo
long either. I got ALL my data back, including those few files that wer
not on backup

OT: Change your handle to something whose initials don't resembl
something from WWII

--
Dzomlij

Peter Alexander Dzomlij
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And a
you die, so shall I be Reborn...

_*Prometheus*
MOBO: ASUS MB-M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-A
CPU: AMD Phenom 9600 Qua
RAM: 2 x A-Data 2GB DDR2-80
GPU: ASUS ATI Radeon HD 2400PRO, 256M
BOX: Thermaltake Tai-Chi Water Coole
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x6
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In article <>,
Dzomlija <> wrote:
>
>There is nothing wrong with using a JBOD setup.

Sure there is. It multiplies your chance of catastrophic failure
by the number of discs (at least) while offering no performance
improvement.

IMHO building a water-cooled quad-core Phenom and installing
a JBOD array is kinda nuts, especially with terabyte sata drives at maybe
300 bucks.

the wharf rat;671032 Wrote:
> In article <>
> Dzomlija <> wrote:> > >
> >
> > >There is nothing wrong with using a JBOD setup. > >
>
> Sure there is. It multiplies your chance of catastrophic failur
> by the number of discs (at least) while offering no performanc
> improvement
>
> IMHO building a water-cooled quad-core Phenom and installin
> a JBOD array is kinda nuts, especially with terabyte sata drives a
> mayb
> 300 bucks

First off, I'm not using the JBOD setup anymore (go to ASUS website an
compare the "A8N32-SLI Deluxe" and "ASUS MB-M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP
motherboards. The M3A32 series does not support JBOD - That was m
initial problem. So I just a JBOD emulator in recovery software I hav
to rebuild the array, recover my data, and now I'm running each driv
seperately - without a single byte lost

And secondly, here in South Africa, a TeraByte drive costs in excess o
R5500 (retail). At current exchange rates of about US$8.00/ZAR1.00
thats about US$680. This is why I went with the JBOD setup to begi
with. A single TB drive costs way to friggin much

So do your homework first before criticizing my motives or my choices

But we digress. Perhaps we can be a little more constructive b
assiting the original poster with his problem of wanting to move th
"C:\Users" folder

--
Dzomlij

Peter Alexander Dzomlij
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And a
you die, so shall I be Reborn...

_*Prometheus*
MOBO: ASUS MB-M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-A
CPU: AMD Phenom 9600 Qua
RAM: 2 x A-Data 2GB DDR2-80
GPU: ASUS ATI Radeon HD 2400PRO, 256M
BOX: Thermaltake Tai-Chi Water Coole
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x6
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In article <>,
Dzomlija <> wrote:
>
>So do your homework first before criticizing my motives or my choices.
>

Well, I'm sorry you're offended, but JBOD setups are obsolete
proto-RAIDS, the storage equivalent of trilobites. I'm just as
surprised to see one in use as I'd be if an Amphilichas bit my trout fly.