c:\windows\profiles question

I am building several XP machines from scratch and, for
reasons I won't get into here, need the above directory.
I found it by default on one of my builds but it doesn't
appear on a second one I've done. I realize this profiles
folder was used by NT and earlier operating systems, but
these builds are not upgrades, they are clean XP
installs. Any idea how to get that directory to appear or
at least why it would appear on one build and not the
other?

Deploy.CAB, on the XP setup CD, contains directions (in
the .chm files) for creating INF files to set the name
and path of the "ProfilesDir"

Mark L. Ferguson MVP

>-----Original Message-----
>I am building several XP machines from scratch and, for
>reasons I won't get into here, need the above
directory.
>I found it by default on one of my builds but it doesn't
>appear on a second one I've done. I realize this
profiles
>folder was used by NT and earlier operating systems, but
>these builds are not upgrades, they are clean XP
>installs. Any idea how to get that directory to appear
or
>at least why it would appear on one build and not the
>other?
>.
>

In article <1e07301c4547c$fc199770$a001280a@phx.gbl>,
marfer_mvp@hotmail.com says...
> Deploy.CAB, on the XP setup CD, contains directions (in
> the .chm files) for creating INF files to set the name
> and path of the "ProfilesDir"
>
> Mark L. Ferguson MVP
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am building several XP machines from scratch and, for
> >reasons I won't get into here, need the above
> directory.
> >I found it by default on one of my builds but it doesn't
> >appear on a second one I've done. I realize this
> profiles
> >folder was used by NT and earlier operating systems, but
> >these builds are not upgrades, they are clean XP
> >installs. Any idea how to get that directory to appear
> or
> >at least why it would appear on one build and not the
> >other?

In answer to your question, c:\windows\profiles is only the correct
location on windows 9x computers.

Windows 2k/xp use c:\documents and settings\...