You can move the profiles via Local Policy via the MMC. It takes a little
work, but it does indeed work.


Bill F.



"Pud" <Pud@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The way I have had my past several machines configured is to have a number
> of
> different drives/partitions configured eg 'System' (C, 'Programs (P,
> Files (F which contains 'My Documents', downloads, Setup and other files
> etc
>
> On XP this was achieved by the brute force method - boot to 'Safe Mode',
> move the 'Program Files' folder from C: to P: and then edit the registry,
> changing every occurence of 'C:\Pro' to 'P:\Pro'. After this and
> rebooting
> the machine worked fine and all new programs installed to the new drive.
>
> I've recently downloaded 'Vista Ultimate' and have attempted to do the
> same
> as formerly on XP as detailed, but after rebooting many programs will not
> work, and running a Setup file from CD throws up an error.
>
> Is there a means by which this can be achieved as it does make backup of
> the
> System drive (C somewhat quicker.
>