How to move User folders to 2nd drive in Windows 8?

Anonymous
2012-11-12T16:38:04+00:00

I am posting on behalf of a customer.

His C drive's a SSD & which is not big enough for all his music,photos,video and download files. Is there a way to move user files to a second drive?

Please comment with any information or suggestions.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-05-13T20:03:26+00:00

    I used this REG file to update script and it worked, great:

    ChangeUserProfileLocation.reg

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList]

    "ProfilesDirectory"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,55,00,73,00,75,00,61,00,72,00,69,\

      00,6f,00,73,00,00,00

    In REGEDIT it actually looks like a kes: ProfilesDirectory = D:\Usuarios

    (I'm in Latin America so we use Spanish) :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-13T15:03:23+00:00

    Will that tutorial show how to save an email to document folder from Windows Mail for windows 8.1

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-21T15:02:31+00:00

    Hi Derek,

    thanks for the reply.

    I did not move the whole "users" but only the folders in it.

    And yes I moved the "Downloads" as well, but as stated above, when downloading something, a new Downloads folder on the C:\ drive under user is created and files are downloaded there and not into the moved "downloads" folder on the D:\ drive.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-20T23:02:03+00:00

    Got it figured out reading all the above comments.

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