【 Weak current College 】 modify Windows 7 user configuration folder location

In Windows7, default user profile folder is c:\users, and Vista is the same, the user configuration and the system entirely on one partition is very inconvenient, for example: restoring the system, the previous configuration will be lost, even if your data is deliberately placed to other partitions, but the configuration of all Windows and other software configuration is generally under the AppData folder, not a very good addition to save and backup

The problem is not in linux, linux at the beginning of the design has been taken into consideration, but so far no active Windows with relevant modifications method

Online there are many on the amendments to the Windows default location for user configuration:

1. forthcoming when installation is complete, the reference Windows7MovetheUsersandProgramFilesDirectoriesToADifferentPartition

2. have the installation is complete, you can modify mklink.exe associated complete

If you are interested in this area, you can search in google for "Windows7moveuserprofilefolder" similar keywords

But, above all, I personally feel there will be a certain risk, and actions more difficult.

The following gives you an introduction to a relatively easy way (below assume that you want to move the user configuration folder D:\Users):

Note: before you modify the registry to be backed up

1. c:\users\default\ (by default this directory is hidden) to d:\Users\.

2. copy to c:\users\public\ d:\Users\.

3. in the command line, enter regedit carriage return, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWSNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.

4. the Default, the Public key of the value, ProfileDirectory changed to a new location, in the% SystemDrive% is replaced with d:

5. cancellation. from now on, all new users that will establish appropriate d:\Users\ folder.

6. create a new account and login, you can see your account is created in d:\users\, but did not create under c:\Users\.

7. the original copy of the file under the account, you can delete the original account, of course, in order to be on the safe side with important files are not copied over, you can temporarily retained.

Implementation of this method, the together very simple, just install the above method, ensure that the folder location you entered is correct, you certainly won't have a problem.