Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

MadMabb said:

Hi Kari! I followed this guide to move Users folder and it of course worked perfectly. Thank you, very much appreciate your contribution and insight!

The problem I am encountering is that I now want to swap out the SSD which serves as my D: for a higher capacity one. I cloned the SSD, then swapped out the drives, but on login I get an error about the User Profile Service. Copying files seems between drives gives the same results.
I'm imagining this has something to do with the UID particular to each drive. I'm not sure how to overcome this short of re-installing Windows. In this case, do I need to follow Method 2 to relocate the Users back to C:, perform the drive swap, and then relocate Users again back to D:?
Seems like a lot of work to be able to swap the drive out. I'm hoping you know of a more straightforward method.
EDIT: i think I found your answer to a similar question on page 93 of this thread. As an aside and to the point you made there, I did try to boot into my imaging program and restore the cloned image, but that didn't do the trick. So i guess it's off to try Method 2!

Just a quick update... Method 2 worked like a charm! I moved the folders back to C, swapped the drives and reassigned drive letters, then moved the Users folders back to D using Method 2 again. Then it was just a matter of copying over files from backups. Now that I have a Macrium backup going I'm feeling pretty good about where things are. I expected a lot more problems, but Win10 seems to handle the moving of the Users folder better than Win7 did.

When last I moved the default Users folder in Win 7, I made use of a junction from C:\Users to D:\Users... is there any need for the junction with the Methods presented in this tutorial?

Hi,

I want to change the Users folder location to a file server.

Example:



I change the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory key "%SystemDrive%\Users% to "\\server\Users" ,but when i try to logon returns an error "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded."

Windows logs shows that the event error is the Event ID 1533 and Event ID 1500.

Someone already configured this way?

Hello there,

I have my System disk full, so much that I have enormous problems in doing almost everything suggested because of a lack of system space (for example, installing Macrium and the PE component is a struggle).
I would like to follow method 2, but I have seen that the tutorial has changed from the one explained in the method 2 video (in the video the tutorial page is shown for a while, and I can see that there are a few lines that are now missing, for example the one that specifies the Windows edition)...

So, I would like to ask a few questions before going for it.

1) I think that the install.esd has to be converted into install.wim, right? I ask because this is one of the lines now gone in the tutorial

2) When running the Sysprep, do I really need all of the Windows system disk? Or is the install.wim enough?

Say, I have 3 drives (C:, D:, E:) and one cd-reader (F:)
I want the users folder relocated to E:.
I am thinking about putting only the .wim file and not the whole Windows disk to D:, and to modify the relocate script telling it to look for the .wim file in drive D:
Will it work?

3) In the video I saw "Following the installation media location, separated with #, see that you have the Windows version correctly ...". This line is now gone in the tutorial. Is it still valid? If no, why?

Thanks!

Never mind, I found that install.wim is no longer required and this gets me rid of all the three questions. Thanks anyway!

While doing this procedure on the latest version of Win 10 Creation, on a new Gigabyte Brik, I discovered the Audit mode will not function under Windows Powershell(admin), which Win10 evokes when you try and do a cmd.exe.
I was able to get around this, but the documentation needs to be updated.

Tom