Guest Al Dykes Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 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 Quote
Guest Trev Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 "Al Dykes" wrote in message news:hpdp6q$nvo$1@panix5.panix.com... > > 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 Quote
Guest Gene E. Bloch Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 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". -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom Quote
Guest Al Dykes Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 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. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail Quote
Guest Gene E. Bloch Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 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... -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom Quote
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