I can’t believe it’s almost impossible to find anyone who can offer much information on the Profile tab in the User Properties in Computer Management. I’m hoping someone can tell me if there is any benefit to specifying [local] Home folders for about 8 users on an XP Pro system. No domain, just a few computers in a workgroup. I’m trying to get as much of the data as possible off of %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings and put it on larger D: partition. Would Home folders help me do that or can the entire profile be moved as per the “User profile path” would suggest? I’ve been out of this for far too long to remember what i used to do for this in NT4. Also, i’ve only worked within Domains, and didn’t setup workgroups too often. It seems that oldtimers disease has reared it’s ugly head. I’ve been scouring the Internet, Borders XP book options and even the Resource book with no worthwhile ideas. I guess the only real way is to use unattend install and specify Documents and Settings as well as Program Files directories on D: from jumpstreet?
I did experiment with moving some of the users profiles to D: as per reg edits and it seemed to work. Of course problems may arise from this. All i really need is to move My Docs, TIF, Favs. and have new users already setup that way when they first log in. Can the Default User Profile already have the My Docs and other above mentioned data specified for D:\Users\%username% or even D:\Documents and Settings\%username% ??
I guess the best would be to create Home folders and move the My Docs folders and other stuff there?
Any and all ideas would be appreciated and I thank you very much for your help!!
