How do I relocate my user home directory to another partition?

[Al Dykes]

I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D

partition for my user files.



I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the

properties tab.



I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")

but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.



Is it possible to relocate "user"?







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Al Dykes

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[Trev]

"Al Dykes" wrote in message

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>

> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D

> partition for my user files.

>

> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the

> properties tab.

>

> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")

> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

>

> Is it possible to relocate "user"?

>

>

>

> --

> Al Dykes

> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is

> advertising.

> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

>



The users Folders are Non excitant There just virtual links

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:



> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D

> partition for my user files.

>

> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the

> properties tab.

>

> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")

> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

>

> Is it possible to relocate "user"?



I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.

That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".



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[Al Dykes]

In article ,

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

>On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

>

>> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D

>> partition for my user files.

>>

>> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the

>> properties tab.

>>

>> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")

>> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

>>

>> Is it possible to relocate "user"?

>

>I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.

>That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".







I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been

clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a

folder called C:\users\user shown by properties in control panel. I

don't know offhand if it's a link or not.



I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.



I can understand that relocating "C\users" would break things.









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Al Dykes

News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.

- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On 5 Apr 2010 22:34:26 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:



> In article ,

> Gene E. Bloch wrote:

>>On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

>>

>>> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D

>>> partition for my user files.

>>>

>>> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the

>>> properties tab.

>>>

>>> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")

>>> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

>>>

>>> Is it possible to relocate "user"?

>>

>>I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.

>>That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".

>

>

>

> I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been

> clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a

> folder called C:\users\user shown by properties in control panel. I

> don't know offhand if it's a link or not.

>

> I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.

>

> I can understand that relocating "C\users" would break things.



I stand by what I said. Your user directory is under C:\users...



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