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– I followed this tutorial perfectly, but I had some issues with it. (I previously backed up the entire drive to an external drive just in case I hosed everything.) – Then I deleted my profile, including all its files. (Yes, that ended up creating the Admin profile in the Windows 7 partition, but I didn't care.) I then enabled the Administrator account and logged into it. – So per your idea, I used the Migration Wizard to back up my profile. I then discovered this tutorial, but didn't really want to go through customizing everything all over again. I had not been 100% successful in manually moving AppData and all those weird links in the past. (ie: Contacts, Desktop, Downloads, My Documents, My Music, etc…) However, I really wanted my ENTIRE profile, including AppData and all those weird links, on the separate partition. On my computer, I had already been running “most” of my profile on a separate partition. And also make sure you have logged out in order to take effect. Check if you have the miss spell the directory name etc. This is an indication that you didn’t do the step correctly.

If you’ve done everything and see an error message in your user profile directory saying “Some library features are unavailable due to unsupported library locations.

see this post when you failed to upgrade due to the change of the user profile location.

A brand new fresh profile is always better. So highly recommend that doing so as early as you can.

There will be a lot more steps to move a user profile that’s already been generated.

When you logged into your new account (make sure with the new profile location) you can now delete your old account prior to the change. From this point on, any new user logged in to this computer will have a new user profile that’s located in the new location.Īfter changing the registry.(as using D:\ drive for example)Ħ. Change the value of the Default, Public, Profile Directory keys to the new location accordingly.ĥ. Open Registry Editor by type Regedit from the command line, and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.Ĥ. Copy the original Public profile folder in C:\users to the new location. (by default this “Default” directory is hidden, you need to go Tools > Folder Options > View (tab) > Show Hidden files, folders, and drivers.)Ģ. Copy the original Default profile folder in C:\users to the new location. This can save your mess if you did something wrong.ġ.

Warning before you attempt to make any change in the registry make sure you have the original registry backed up. However, here is what I’ve done normally. Normally, you can do that by either using a pre-defined unattended install file or moving the individual folders inside the user profile which also will update the registry keys accordingly to reflect the change.