If I implement symbolic links on the default profile, will that automatically make unique links for each user when they first log in to the system?
Think bigger, you only need to symlink the users directory, not each profile. It's tricky, cause you need to do it from another OS, but google for "Windows 7 Users Redirection Symlink" and maybe the old method will work on Windows 8.
I have tried the same registry hack. I got Windows to respect the new path and create profile directories for new users in the new path, but I have run into a number of stability issues with the system. The strange this is that this didn't seems to be a problem in W8RP; I was able to hack the registry, and it was fine.
I have not yet been able to find the root cause, but this could be a big proble m. Tuesday, August 21, PM. What you are supposed to do is to use libraries instead. Libraries don't cover everything in the user profile directory, particularly the Downloads and AppData directories. These files can be huge, and if you are using a SSD, you hav e to redirect the Downloads directory in order to save room on your system disk.
In order to put the public libraries on a mass storage disk without hacking the registry, you need to either junction the default Public directory or change the default user profile so that the default profile's libraries point to the mass storage volume.
You have to re-junction the "My Documents" folder in the user profile directory to the new mass storage location for apps that have not been updated to support libraries. Then go to my computer and set your mouse on Your Users Folder. Then Simply Right Click it and go to Properties. Then look for Change Location or words to that affect , and Browse to the location you would like if the folder name at that location does not exist, then make one.
Then Procede with the Move. All Done. Hmm…I am not sure if this is going to work. To make a symoblink, the original folder needs to be copied and deleted. Dir returns an empty drive as well. So I needed to change all references of c: to e:. Also it is much more cautios not to delete the c:users folder but rather rename it first. This folder contains the settings and files required for the installed programs.
After several re-installs, I did a little more searching and discovered my problem. After rebooting, what was E: in the repair console goes back to D:. Moving the Program Files location using the same methods breaks the ability to install. NET 3. Any suggestions on this?
Creating the symbolic link for the Program Files folder Works until Windows needs to install updates, then it fails installing some updates like the. Net framework. Also, when I created the link for the Program Files folder, the Internet Explorer App stopped working all other apps continued to work.
While I would have preferred to see a Microsoft supported method, this one works well. It took me a few minutes to realize my C was moved to E in the recovery command console. I have a second drive that was assigned a letter D , and I guess the OS decided to move C to E when the system recovery drive was in the picture.
I just changed the xcopy and mklink commands to reflect what was in the console environment, and the OS picked it up when it moved my boot drive back to its regular drive designation.
Solved :. But everything is fine otherwise, win8 just needs convincing that the users folder is actually at the right location :. Follow everything as written above. Definitely do a rename d:Users UsersOld so you can go back if something goes wrong. Dont despair, no need to reinstall. We will go to Safe mode and correct the registry. Select Troubleshoot, select Advanced options, Startup settings, click Restart and upon Restart you will get the standard Windows Safe mode option.
Select it and after a short wait you are in safe mode, win8 complaining about missing desktop, just click ok. You are going to see a couple of directories in ProfileList and at least one or two are really long ones s for me, maybe different for you: if its a clean install and you have only one account it was the same on two different computers: check that in the. Just switch the currently active to the retained.
Now look at State key, it should show a non-0 number in the active profile you have just copied back. Double click, set it back to 0.
Ok, we have convinced win8 that this is a good profile. Close Regedit. Voila, all Metro apps back, login works like a charm. Hope it works for you as well, tested on two comps. And thanks for all including Kent and Brink for the detailed info, I just connected the two pieces.
You still have to go through this safe mode idiocy to convince Win8 that the user dir is back on C:, but I have done it several times and it always works 2 diff computers. I did it and it worked fine, but now i have a different problem, when i try to use my video or photo apps from metro, it crashes and i get an error message saying that the remote procedure call failed. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve it? I have the same issue too and I expect many more people will too.
Seems crazy that Metro apps will all crash as soon as you move a profile to a second drive. Anyone else get this to work on a retail full install copy of Win8 Pro? I did the registry edit in Win7 when I got my ssd this summer. Windows is on c: my user files are on my d: disk and big programs are on p:. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions.
Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. Thank you for your feedback! We would really like to avoid using sysprep for this. There is no supported way to accomplish this after the system is already installed. If you attempt to move an entire users profile folder to another partition or drive, this will introduce problems that will result in a less than acceptable user experience.
Other disk space hogs, such as Email Client programs and other programs that create a huge amount of data will usually have an option available that allow the user to easily store all of this data on a remote drive. Was this reply helpful? Yes No.
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