Re: I Wanna change my default "Documents and settings" folder's path

"JRAndrade" wrote
1st: Sorry for my bad english
2nd: I need to relocate my "Documents & Settings" folder to another HD and
then create new users. I think this is the best way for me to achieve protect
the configurations and documents of all users of a PC from a system crash. My
problem is: I don't know how to do that. I wish that Windows creates my all
new users in another partition or hard disk and (obviously) automatically
redirect all of the config folders (My Docs, My Favorites, Cookies, etc) of
each user to that direction. Can somebody help me?

You can't move the full Documents and Settings folder, except at the time of installation.

An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the Documents and Settings folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us

After the fact what you can do is move the users My Documents, My Music, and other My folders to a different drive by several different means. One is by using TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Lastly. this is not the best way to protect the documents of all users. Moving folders to a different drive allows for ease in backup, but to protect the data all the important files need to be regularly backed up to external media. And the best is to have redundancy in backup means and media.

Acronis True Image version 10 to image the system to an external drive is an good and cost effective backup / recovery solution.

Always, always have a full and complete backup.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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