Re: Moving all user files to separate partition under windows
"Shawn A. Van Ness" <[email protected]>
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Hmm... not sure if this can be made to work, after all. It seems to work ok at first -- but processes that run low-integrity (such as IE8 viewing Internet Zone content, and sidebar gadgets, etc) have problems. I think I have all the ACLs set properly. Not sure what the exact point of failure is... Mark, Herb, anyone -- have this working ok on Win7? -S On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah there is an UnAttend.xml file, with some entries you can tweak to > specify an alternative location for C:\Users. > > I remember at some point (Vista?) that this caused problems with > build-to-build upgrades... not sure if we fixed that for Win7. > Binging around a bit, this seems to be a good walkthrough of the mklink /j > approach: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users-to-d-users-under-vista-w7 > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Herb Warren <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, tenveer<[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > i think this is what u want >> > http://hubpages.com/hub/Windows-7_-_Moving_My_Documents >> >> After reading this - and I do like Shawn's suggestion - what I think I >> really want is an installer for Windows7 that does the right thing to >> begin with. Has the procedure for making an unattended install script >> changed (much) since XP? I vaguely recall making on for XP, but for >> the life of me I can't find my notes or the script.... >> >> Thanks, >> Herb. >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >