Move the Users Directory in Windows 7
When scouring the net for hours on a method of relocating the entire Users directory (in Windows 7) on another partition, most of the methods were not good. They mostly involved nasty registry editing and dummy accounts, and had quirks that could cause potential issues further down the line.
Eventually, I came across a brilliant method on tuts4tech by a user named “ohdannyboy”. It’s utterly flawless, and makes use of symlinks. It’s simple, and you can just forget about it after it’s done. Everything takes care of itself. The only quirk is that accessing the Users folder from the C: drive (for example) appears as “C:” when it’s actually on “D:”. But this appears to be the intentional behaviour of symlinks. Several months on for me, and it’s like nothing was ever changed.
Unfortunately, that post no longer seems to be there (the site crashed shortly after, and I think they had to resort to backups or something). It’s too good a method to let it disappear. Just remember that this is THIS user’s method and NOT mine.
It’s also best to do this on a clean install of Windows, unless you don’t mind waiting awhile…
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