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| XP Pro: Set user's Profile and Local Path without copying files? Hi. I guess I should elaborate... ....Via the Computer Management console in XP Pro, under Local Users and Groups, I can set a user's Profile and Local Path. This could point to a network share or any other folder on the filesystem - or alternative partition. I would like my users' Profiles to exist on a partition with more free space than the default C:\Documents and Settings. While, sure, I can quite easily change the target of their My Documents folder, this just isn't enough. Now I know, using junctions, I could just point C:\Documents and Settings to an entirely different location, but junctions and the Recycle Bin just don't mix - it's a known bug in XP that I am confident will never be resolved (try copy a file/folder INTO a junction and then delete it - it won't delete). So, the only other option left open to me is the ability to specify another Profile and and Local Path for each user - but that comes with the price of XP copying the users' profiles from the alternative path to C:\Documents and Settings during logon. And that is ghastly - it doesn't resolve my issue. Reinstalling XP and specifying an alternative profiles location on the command-line isn't an option, and neither is reallocating more space to the XP boot partition (the latter isn't because of resources, but company policy). So, what options am I left with? (If only I could mount a filesystem within a folder like Linux, that works - **** you junctions!) |
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