Hardware Profiles ???

I was trying to put 2 different hardware profiles on my laptop. One is for work and the other is for home. I have a different default gateway and mapped drives at work than I do at home. I logged in using the work profile and changed my gateway and mapped the drives, but when I changed to my home profile, it had changed as well. How do I get them to be different?? Do I need to use different user profiles instead of hardware?