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Users and Program files/ProgramData reroute?
Hi all.
On my desktop I run WS2008R2 Enterprise and have done since 2009 due to the work I do heavily in IT. It's a critical system.
I also have a laptop running Windows 10 Enterprise.
I managed a very long time ago to have my WS2008R2 desktop system to re-route any users and program files to another stripped HDD (RAID 0) which is E: and the OS remains on C: and Windows update and everything has been working great with no issues.
I know I had to change some registry settings (yup, even IE works when I changed the path) along with maybe some PATH environment settings too, half way during installation for this to work and certainly works great - no need for a directory junction to be made (mklink) as I had OS issues with this. I also used robocopy to copy Program files to another drive, straight after the OS installation before I modified reg settings and then rebooted.
In any event, I want to install a newer server OS however there are some things missing from it. But, I can settle with Windows 10.
Question I have is for Windows 10, how can I successfully:
- have all user profiles created and redirected to another physical HDD?
- same thing for Program Files, Program Files (x86)?
- Any new program installations to automatically pick up the new location of Program files, just like I managed on WS2008R2?
Is there a way to do this in Windows 10, and still have all updates run smoothly?
Whether it be a registry trick or an ADK approach, whatever - I would be interested to know. Sometimes changing it from within the OS does not quite work fully (I tried in a test environment with WS2012 once...then managed to get it to work with more reg hacks).