{"id":9294,"date":"2020-06-04T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/govinddas.com\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:21:59","slug":"change-user-profile-location-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/govinddas.com\/index.php\/change-user-profile-location-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the User Profile location in Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The default location for User Profiles are <\/span>C:\\Users<\/code>. I would like to move this location to another drive (i.e.\u00a0<\/span>D:\\Users<\/code>). I’ve already been able to customize the library locations, however there are other things that I like to migrate as well. Is there a simple way to change the default location of the User Profiles?<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Users Folder – Move Location in Windows 10<\/a>\u00a0– Follow that, it moves everything. Skip to the part where it says pre existing install.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There only one “true” way to doing it – with sysprep. Described here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/1964-users-folder-move-location-windows-10-a.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But I warn against such actions. Moving user profiles to a non-standard location causes problems with the installation and operation of many programs. Without thinking – MS RSAT does not installs after transfer profile.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As @Slipeer said i would not move all the profile, it can produce lot of error. Maybe it would be enough moving the documents ubication of the user from C to D?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Contrary to the second paragraph of the answer, I run this setup for many years (2013 IIRC), from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (and through migration) without any issue of any sort. This is not always easy to setup at first, but once in place with sysprep, absolutely no conflicts nor issues. And I think this is for a simple reason: over the versions of Windows, the path to the correct folder changed a lot, not even saying that it is depending on the username, so from an application point of view, not querying the path dynamically would be silly.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I have had a lot of success using an NTFS junction to redirect the Users directory to another drive. I followed this guide:\u00a0https:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2010\/02\/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7\/<\/a>. This guide is for Windows 7, but it also works with 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing to remember, though, when in recovery mode and creating the junction. Make sure that the junction points to the correct drive letter in your Windows installation itself. It may be different in recovery. To keep things in order, I used\u00a0diskpart<\/code>\u00a0to change drive letters to match my installation.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would also recommend moving just your user’s directory. If for whatever reason it’s inaccessible you won’t be able to log in. In that case, it would benefit having the default administrator account still on C:\\.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Came here attacking this problem from a different angle – my local profile directory was removed and I could not recover it – so still technically a profile move issue. The pop-up error dialog I was receiving was “Could not sign-in to local profile” when the directory was corrupted or missing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The approach that helped me was renaming the\u00a0ProfileList<\/code>\u00a0entry\u00a0.old<\/code>\u00a0and restarting the machine. After restart I could run\u00a0sysdm.cpl<\/code>\u00a0>\u00a0Advanced<\/strong>\u00a0tab > User Profile\u00a0Settings<\/strong>\u00a0and delete my temporary profile (<< userid >>.TEMP<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Profile List – Manual Registry Edits<\/span><\/h3>\n