Organising your user folders

[Stoffel]

After installing Windows again all you documents, pictures, videos,... are all standard stored in C:\Users\(username)

Like a lot of people I don't like that location

I rather have all my user data on a separate partition.

So far this has always been a long process.

I used to go to the c:\users\(username) folder and then right click on each folder

click properties, and then change the location.

After that's all done I have to go and change the Libraries.

This seems like a very long way to achieve what I want

Does anybody have a better solution?

And If there is a cool way of doing all this in Win 8 CP let me know

[The_Observer]

After installing Windows again all you documents, pictures, videos,... are all standard stored in C:\Users\(username)

Like a lot of people I don't like that location

I rather have all my user data on a separate partition.

So far this has always been a long process.

I used to go to the c:\users\(username) folder and then right click on each folder

click properties, and then change the location.

After that's all done I have to go and change the Libraries.

This seems like a very long way to achieve what I want

Does anybody have a better solution?

And If there is a cool way of doing all this in Win 8 CP let me know

Too true.

[SouthWest]

You can use a symlink, I'm to tired to give a proper explanation so go to this link instead:

http://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7

[marc2003]

rather than change the location of each folder indivdually, you can simply cut/paste the all the folders at once in explorer.

yes, it really is that easy. everything else updates automatically including library locations. it just works. i'm doing it now on windows 8 and it also works in windows 7, probably vista as well.

[Stoffel]

rather than change the location of each folder indivdually, you can simply cut/paste the all the folders at once in explorer.

yes, it really is that easy. everything else updates automatically including library locations. it just works. i'm doing it now on windows 8 and it also works in windows 7, probably vista as well.

And do you copy the whole c:\users folder or just the individual folders in your profile?