How do I relocate my user home directory to another partition?

[Al Dykes]

I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
partition for my user files.

I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
properties tab.

I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

Is it possible to relocate "user"?

 

[Trev]

I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
partition for my user files.

I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
properties tab.

I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

Is it possible to relocate "user"?



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Al Dykes
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[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
partition for my user files.

I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
properties tab.

I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

Is it possible to relocate "user"?

I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".

 

[Al Dykes]

I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".

I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been
clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a
folder called C:\users\user shown by properties in control panel. I
don't know offhand if it's a link or not.

I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.

I can understand that relocating "C;\users" would break things.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been
clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a
folder called C:\users\user shown by properties in control panel. I
don't know offhand if it's a link or not.

I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.

I can understand that relocating "C;\users" would break things.

I stand by what I said. Your user directory is under C:\users...