Multiple Users / partitions

[Guest]

I have partitioned an HDD as "system" and three individual user partitions.
When n.e.1 logs on "my Computer" shows "Files stored on this computer" which
has all individual's Documents folders - each having C (system) as the root
directory.
How should (administrator) configure such that each individuals files,
folders and downloads go directly to that individuals root partition? E.g.
n#1's download music file goes to n#1's root:\Documents and Settings\n#1\My
Documents\My Music, n#2's download picture file goes to n#2's root:\Documents
and Settings\n#2\My Documents\My Pictures and n#3's Received Files goes to
n#3's root:\Dos and Sets\n#3\My Docs\My Received Files?

 

[Guest]

You can do this:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_mydocs.htm

Changing the location fo a whole user-profile is bit more complex, and MS
don't recommend it.

Noted that MS does not recommed doing this, but if i still insists to change
the whole user profile location, e.g. d:\Profiles\<users>, how can i do it?
Having said this, all new user will have their profile in this folder. Hope
you can help.

Thanks.

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

See if the section Entire Folder in the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;236621 helps.

Where new profile folders are created is specified by the registry value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory

In the few occasions when I've done this operation, I've always moved all of
the existing profile folders, including the All Users and Default Users
folders .

I suspect you will need to do steps 11 through 13 for the Default User
registry hive as well. This is NOT usually loaded into the registry, you
have to manually load it - the .Default hive under HKEY_USERS is NOT the
registry hive from the Default Users profile.

In regedit:
1. select the HKEY_USERS root item
2. click File, Load Hive
3. navigate to %systemroot%\Documents and Settings\Default User
4. select ntuser.dat
5. click Open
6. key any name - this will identify this particular hive under HKEY_USERS
in regedit

When you're done making the changes, select the hive (named in step 6),
click File, Unload Hive.