Teach you how to modify the Windows 7 user configuration folder location

In Windows 7, the default user configuration folder is c:\\users, which is the same as Vista. It is very inconvenient to put the user configuration and system completely in a partition. For example, when restoring the system, the previous one The configuration will be lost, even if your data is intentionally placed in other partitions, but all Windows configuration and other software configuration is generally in the AppData folder, not very good to save and backup

The problem is not a problem in Linux, Linux has been considered at the beginning of the design, and Windows has not actively provided relevant modification methods.

There are many online changes to the default Windows user configuration. Location article:

1. When the installation is complete, refer to Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition

2. After the installation is complete, you can use mklink. Exe related changes are completed

If you are interested in this, you can search for "Windows 7 move user profile folder" in google. Similar terms

However, the above various parties I personally feel there will be some risk, but a relatively high degree of difficulty operating.

The following introduces you to a relatively simple method (the following assumes that you want to move the user configuration folder D:\\Users):

Note: Make a backup before modifying the registry. Br>

1. Copy c:\\users\\default\\ (the default directory is hidden) to d:\\Users\\

2. Copy c:\\users\\public\\ to d :\\Users\\下

3. Enter regedit at the command line and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\WINDOWS NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList
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4. Change the value of the Default, Public, Profile Directory key to the new location, here replace %SystemDrive% with d:

5. Logout. From now on At the beginning, all newly created users will create corresponding folders under d:\\Users\\

Before changing the registry.

Change to D:\\ under the registry display

6. Create a new account and log in, you can see that your account was created under d:\\users\\, and c: \\Users\\ is not created

7. Copy the file under the original account, you can delete the original account, However, in order to prevent important files from being copied, you can temporarily reserve the

method. It is very simple to implement. Just install the above method and ensure that the input folder is in the correct position. There will be problems

Tip:

This method is also applicable to Vista. XP also has this registry entry, it should be OK, but I have not tried it. Interested friends can test it. Br>