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Old 05-19-2007, 05:40 AM
jimboblaschoomer
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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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