{"id":241,"date":"2010-05-07T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chillingsilence.wordpress.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-05-07T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T00:01:48","slug":"migrating-a-windows-user-profile-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/migrating-a-windows-user-profile-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating a windows user profile directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many times I&#8217;ve found myself wanting to do this, and only just recently learned how to.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve disconnected from a Domain for example and are now part of a workgroup but want to retain your existing &#8220;setup&#8221;, or perhaps you&#8217;ve got yourself something like an EeePC 900 and your C: Drive is running out of space, this can be a great way to free up additional space, and it&#8217;s a better all-round solution that purely moving the &#8220;My Documents&#8221; folder.<\/p>\n<p>The whole process should take only 2-3 minutes!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Firstly you need to have another user account on the machine. Ideally you can just use the Administrator login, but it&#8217;s just as easy if you have another Admin user on your PC.<\/p>\n<p>So, what you need to have done is logged in as your &#8220;local&#8221; user (If moving from a domain). You may need to create a new User, we&#8217;re going to use &#8220;Bob&#8221; as the example in this. Login as Bob, then log out again.<\/p>\n<p>Now, log in as a *different* administrative user, such as Administrator<\/p>\n<p>Move C:\\Documents and Settings\\Bob, and put it where you want it to be (If applicable).<\/p>\n<p>Click Start &#8211;&gt; Run &#8211;&gt; regedit<\/p>\n<p>Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE &gt; SOFTWARE &gt; Microsoft &gt; Windows NT &gt; CurrentVersion &gt; ProfileList<\/p>\n<p>You should see several entries in there. You&#8217;ll need to look around at them all, and you want to check the &#8220;ProfileImagePath&#8221; key. 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