Moving just part of Documents And Settings to a "Data" drive?

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I'm guessing that it's almost a no-brainer to tell Windows XP to put all of
Documents And Settings on some other drive.

But if I did that in order to help get all my data on one device, I'd be loading
it and the backups up with all those "Temp" files.

Is there a more granular method? Can I somehow force selected subdirectories
of Documents And Settings to another drive? Or maybe just force all of it and
tell Windows to make it's "Temp" and "Tmp" dirs somewhere else?
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
I'm guessing that it's almost a no-brainer to tell Windows XP to put all
of
Documents And Settings on some other drive.

But if I did that in order to help get all my data on one device, I'd be
loading
it and the backups up with all those "Temp" files.

Is there a more granular method? Can I somehow force selected
subdirectories
of Documents And Settings to another drive? Or maybe just force all of
it and
tell Windows to make it's "Temp" and "Tmp" dirs somewhere else?
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I go to Advanced - Environment Variables and change Temp and Tmp to C:\Temp.

When I work on some of my Friends computers, there are multimegabytes of
crap in their "Temp" folders.

So now I tell them to empty C:\Temp occasionally

Galen
 
I'm guessing that it's almost a no-brainer to tell Windows XP to put all
of
Documents And Settings on some other drive.

But if I did that in order to help get all my data on one device, I'd be
loading
it and the backups up with all those "Temp" files.

Is there a more granular method? Can I somehow force selected
subdirectories
of Documents And Settings to another drive? Or maybe just force all of
it and
tell Windows to make it's "Temp" and "Tmp" dirs somewhere else?
Click to expand...

Use TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys, to redirect folders such as My
Documents, My Music, etc. want to another location. You can choose which
ones. You cannot redirect the complete Documents and Settings folder to
another location, nor even most of the folders under Documents and Settings
That can only be set up during installation using a special process.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
 
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