Guest Skippybox Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 I would like to ONLY move my user account and I've read the article, "An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the Documents and Settings folder" at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us. Does the procedure of updating the path in the ProfileImagePath sub-key under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList registry key automatically update all the other registry keys that also use my profiles path? If not, is this solely so Windows knows where my profile is during logon? If so, do I have to update all references to my profiles path in the registry, even though the article only mentions doing so for a "Documents and Settings" folder move? If I have to update these keys too, will I still possibly encounter any other problems or settings that are unadjustable? Also, Step 3 says to, "Log on to the computer as the user, type SET at a command prompt, and then verify that the path has changed." This is confusing because if the path hadn't changed properly, how would it be possible to logon as the user to verify it? Thanks.
Guest Skippybox Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 RE: Moving User Accounts I'm still hoping someone might help with my question. I'd appreciate anyone taking a look at this. I need to know if changing the ProfileImagePath is all you need to do in order to successfully move a user account folder. Will I still need to update any keys that reference the old path, or will they be updated by Windows after I perform the above procedure? This is something you have to do for a "Documents and Settings" folder move, but do I have to update the keys if I am only moving a profile folder? And why do I need to verify the ProfileImagePath in CmdPrompt? If it is incorrect, wouldn't I know, because I would be unable to logon as that user? Thank-you! "Skippybox" wrote: > I would like to ONLY move my user account and I've read the article, "An > error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the Documents and > Settings folder" at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us. Does the > procedure of updating the path in the ProfileImagePath sub-key under the > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList > registry key automatically update all the other registry keys that also use > my profiles path? If not, is this solely so Windows knows where my profile > is during logon? If so, do I have to update all references to my profiles > path in the registry, even though the article only mentions doing so for a > "Documents and Settings" folder move? If I have to update these keys too, > will I still possibly encounter any other problems or settings that are > unadjustable? Also, Step 3 says to, "Log on to the computer as the user, > type SET at a command prompt, and then verify that the path has changed." > This is confusing because if the path hadn't changed properly, how would it > be possible to logon as the user to verify it? Thanks.
Guest Nightowl Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Moving User Accounts Skippybox <Skippybox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Wed, 9 Jul 2008: >I'm still hoping someone might help with my question. I'd appreciate anyone >taking a look at this. I need to know if changing the ProfileImagePath is >all you need to do in order to successfully move a user account folder. Will >I still need to update any keys that reference the old path, or will they be >updated by Windows after I perform the above procedure? This is something >you have to do for a "Documents and Settings" folder move, but do I have to >update the keys if I am only moving a profile folder? And why do I need to >verify the ProfileImagePath in CmdPrompt? If it is incorrect, wouldn't I >know, because I would be unable to logon as that user? Thank-you! Hi Skippybox It may be all you need to do. . . it depends on whether any of your programs might have written registry entries with absolute or hard-coded references to the old profile location. If so, you might get some misbehaviour from those particular programs and perhaps need to re-install them. MVP Ramesh has a page about this that you might find helpful: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm Good luck! Let us know how it goes :-) -- Nightowl
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