Change profile folder

[Silivren Eryn-Duin]

Hi, is there a way to change the place where windows store my profiles?
For now it stores it in the C drive, but this drive is too small to handle
all this.

Thanks

 

[frank]

drive c: is your harddrive...maybe too many programs
mounted on drive c:
first place system looks for profile stuff

 

[Silivren Eryn-Duin]

drive c: is your harddrive...maybe too many programs
mounted on drive c:
first place system looks for profile stuff

Sure I know, but I would like to find a way to change my profile folder,
so I can put it where I want to. We can do it easily for my document
folder, so why not with profile folder?

Thanks

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Sure I know, but I would like to find a way to change my profile folder,
so I can put it where I want to. We can do it easily for my document
folder, so why not with profile folder?

Because it is written into the OS in various places that the profiles
folder is on %systemdrive%. If you move the documents folders elsewhere
(which you can) then what's left should not be that large (assuming you
have restrained Temporary Internet files to something more reasonable
than 10% of the disk).

 

[Silivren Eryn-Duin]

Because it is written into the OS in various places that the profiles
folder is on %systemdrive%. If you move the documents folders elsewhere
(which you can) then what's left should not be that large (assuming you
have restrained Temporary Internet files to something more reasonable
than 10% of the disk).

The problem is: my browser Opera put its settings in the profile folder,
and my newsgroup reader (Pan) puts the messages I download and all its
stuff in this folder as well.

So my two problems are:
- if I have many newsgroups with many messages in it, the folder size can
be an issue;
- if I have to reinstall my computer I would prefer not having anything
valuable on this C drive. I can sure backup my files but it is easy to
forget something.

What is a reasonable value for internet temporary files?

Indeed my issue was more about backup than place on the disk. But if you
say it is impossible, then I will try to find an other way.

Thanks

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

The problem is: my browser Opera put its settings in the profile folder,
and my newsgroup reader (Pan) puts the messages I download and all its
stuff in this folder as well.

Doesn't it have an option to move them someplace else? Even OE6 (spit)
can manage that trick.

So my two problems are:
- if I have many newsgroups with many messages in it, the folder size can
be an issue;
- if I have to reinstall my computer I would prefer not having anything
valuable on this C drive. I can sure backup my files but it is easy to
forget something.

What is a reasonable value for internet temporary files?

Depends on your connection speed, but for broadband it really doesn't
need to be more than a few Mbytes .. if you're on a slower connection,
and like to go back to old pages a lot, then maybe 50MB or 100MB, but
the default is typically a lot larger.

Indeed my issue was more about backup than place on the disk. But if you
say it is impossible, then I will try to find an other way.

NTBackup (should be on your WinXP CD, if you have a real one, although
not installed by default except with XP Pro) can backup Documents and
settings, even the bits that are locked to other applications (NTBackup
uses Shadow Copy, which MS don't seem to make available to other apps).
You can even tell it which bits of D&S you want backed up, and which
bits (like Temporary Internet Files) you are happy to lose.