Moving the Documents and Settings, and My Documents

[Rod]

I've got Windows XP Professional SP2 on my machine. I've also get two hard
drives in it. My C: drive is getting rather full, so I've been looking at
how I can free up some disk space. One possibility, to me, is moving the
Documents and Settings from my C: drive to my other hard drive. How do I do
this in such a way that it won't mess things up, applications which depend
upon Documents and Settings, and especially My Documents, work without a
glitch, etc?

Rod

 

[Gary]

Start - Right Click My Documents - Properties - Move!

 

[frodo]

Start - Right Click My Documents - Properties - Move!

as above, moving My Documents is fairly easy. if you keep all your
music/pics/etc in their "default" folders, which are inside My Docs, then
this can be a good option for you, you'll end up moving a lot of stuff.

the remainder of your profile (\documents and settings\user_name) will
stay where it is. since it holds, among other things, your IE cache, it
too is fairly large. but moving it is tougher.

there is a KB artical about how to move just YOUR profile, or the ENTIRE
Documents and Settings folder (ie, all user profiles) to another drive,
but it is "unsupported" and not too easy, you need to be proficient w/
regedit. read it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q236621/

read and UNDERSTAND it completely before trying it; set a restore point
first too. remember to COPY the original, not move it. If, after reboot
and testing, all is well then delete the original.