Re: Portable Profile

Just a follow-up, as with all things Windows - there's always
something that doesn't line up 100%. The profile will run from
the flash drive, including the User Hives. However, there are a
few profile folders that won't redirect. You can get close, but
the following won't/can't move or stay moved.
1.) Desktop
2.) Local Settings
3.) NetHood
4.) PrintHood
5.) Send To
6.) Start Menu
7.) Templates
8.) User data
Still it will work for the circumstances the customer wants. The
items left behind in the %SystemDrive%\D&S tree aren't show
stoppers.

"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Interesting. Thanks for letting us know.
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> "R. McCarty" wrote:
> | Thought I'd pass along a process for "Portable Profiles". I have a
> | customer who has a second home. They wanted to use an older PC
> | but not have personal data resident on it. What I came up with was
> | a "Portable Profile". I purchased them a 1.0 Gigabyte Flash drive.
> | For each user, I added a local variable "UserProfile" to point to the
> | Flash Drive (P:). I copied their existing Profile tree from the fixed
> | drive to the Flash. Now whenever they use the 2nd PC, all their
> | personal data and settings exists only on the Flash Drive. If this works
> | as planned, all they'll have to do is make their Primary home PC the
> | master and copy My Docs and Favorites to the flash and then do a
> | sort of reverse copy when returning. Synching may be an issue, and
> | must be done carefully. However, redirecting Shell folders didn't
> | stick (Reboot), but changing the UserProfile variable seems to be a
> | solution.
> |
> |
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