WHY microsoft NOT make the Users folder movable????

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Keith Barnett

I have a hard time believing that with the 5 years it took to produce
microsoft would not have run into beta testers that told them they like to
move the users folder to a different partition or hard drive.

If you google this question it is VERY common...........

so far the rest of the system seems GREAT but I would chaulk this up as a
MAJOR oversight......

OR... is there some reason they did this???
 
Keith Barnett said:
I have a hard time believing that with the 5 years it took to produce
microsoft would not have run into beta testers that told them they like to
move the users folder to a different partition or hard drive.

If you google this question it is VERY common...........

so far the rest of the system seems GREAT but I would chaulk this up as a
MAJOR oversight......

OR... is there some reason they did this???
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You can change the location. Right click the folder, properties, location.
 
Rock said:
You can change the location. Right click the folder, properties,
location.
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Right, for each special folder, for each user and all new users. It would be
nice if you could do this for a user folder, or the users folder.
 
you can move it, but try installing nero or adobe reader after you have put
it on a network share - no go!!! :-(
 
Nathanial Woolls said:
Right, for each special folder, for each user and all new users. It would
be nice if you could do this for a user folder, or the users folder.
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But the HKCU part of the registry is within the user folder.

ss.
 
Why would you still want to do this? I know that the standard answer is to
protect the users data files in case of a reinstall of the OS, but with the
procedure that MS has adopted, of moving the user files out of harms way
when installing/reinstalling Vista, this would seem to me, to be a redundant
need.
--Ray Rogers
 
Until the HDD fails of course

Ray Rogers said:
Why would you still want to do this? I know that the standard answer is to
protect the users data files in case of a reinstall of the OS, but with
the procedure that MS has adopted, of moving the user files out of harms
way when installing/reinstalling Vista, this would seem to me, to be a
redundant need.
--Ray Rogers
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i just moved mine from c: to drive g: i click on the name right click
copy and it worked fine

do you have admin rights on the pc ?
 
The data drive might use RAID or mirroring. Or you might simply want to
reduce file churn on the system drive.
 
Just my opinion of course, if I were to go to the trouble and expense of a
raid array I would do it for system and data, but then I'm not a gamer, so
you may have a valid point there if using a striped array. My thinking was
in protection of user files. I had drives and partitions all over the place,
one for data, another for backups and yet one more removable that I switch
out once in a while.
Now I just keep user files where Microsoft deems them, after all, there are
a lot of very smart people working there, contrary to what is said in these
newsgroups :-0
 
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