Create user profiles on drive other than C:\

I want to have local user profiles created on the D drive under d:\users\%username%. I do not want the profiles created under c:\documents and settings\%username%. Profiles can get big and I have a ton of space on the D drive. I am also using the tab "terminal services Profile" on the user account because I am using a terminal server. This is only a test machine and not in production yet, but I really want those terminal users to have a profile created on the D drive when they log on. I have done ALL the standard stuff like where it says profiles and I put the path and it still doesn't work. I have copied the profile from the documents and settings\%username% to the D drive and then set the path to the ntuser.dat folder on the D drive and then deleted the old folder. Because I should not need it anymore. But yet it still points to the one I deleted cause I lost all my settings. I hope I have explained this well enough for someone to help me. Thanks.

 

When I moved some profiles to another hard drive on a W2K box I did the following and it worked perfect:

1. I created a folder on new drive
2. I copied all profile folders in to that folder
3. I then edited the profiles dir path in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList to the root of the new folder I created (ie.. e:\profiles)
4. I then edited the profile path in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\id to the full path of the folder I created (ie... E:\Profiles\user1)

Note: make registry changes while logged in with Admin rights

This might help, it worked flawlessly for me.

Good Luck

Jim

 

It does work, thanks. But I found out that it only works for users that are already created. Is there a way to have all NEW users' profiles created in this new directory? I found that when I changed the registry, upon the first time a new user logs on, it will look in D:\users (the new directory I want the profiles created in and also the path I changed in my registry) for the user profile, which isn't there. I honestly think that there is probably not an easy way to fix this (if there is a way at all!) Bill Gates must have stocks in Citrix as well cause I am running that program and it has no problem doing it. It is expensive though. Thanks for any help!

 

as long as you changed the dir path in the main key which is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList , all new profiles will be placed there. I have created new id's on the machines I did it to and they went to new path. so make sure you changed the main key and not just the individual keys.

Jim

...although I have not yet changed profile location when TS is involved which is your case so not sure how it will work, but im sure it has to be the same, I'm sure it has to be possible.