Once Windows is installed, you can really only move individual profiles
one-by-one.
The KB article you referenced describes a really somewhat insane method
of moving the entire Documents and Settings folder with mass registry editing,
but IMO it is not a good idea to try this unless you have some truly desperate
problem (and a more advanced registry editor than regedit/regedt32.)
You can I believe control where new profiles are created simply by changing
the "ProfilesDirectory" value in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\ProfileList key. If that helps, it is very simple.
If you want to move an individual profile, juse use the 'profilelist' registry edit
described in the KB link you referenced. It also is a very simple edit.
But once you have changed the user's registry setting, you need to move or copy
the entire profile folder tree for that user (using another account of course) to
the new location you designated in the registry and also make sure that security
on those folders is set appropriately.
It also is not a bad idea to search the user's registry and adjust any values that
explicity reference the old user profile folder tree directly. Applications are supposed
to use %userprofile%, but quite a few -- including occasionally Microsoft's -- fail to
observe this.
Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
