I would like to find out how to have Windows CREATE a user profile in a different location. At my company we work with a software called deepfreeze which locks down the hard drive to any changes. We have a partition of the hard drive which is not locked down which is where we store our user profiles. currently we have a standard profile name which everyone uses on these computers which is a very unsecure way of doing things. i want to give our users back their security by giving them individual profile names again, however when they log in the profile is created on C:/ which is locked down and once the computer is restarted the changes will be deleted. because of this i need to move the profile to a different location, and i was looking for a way to tell Windows XP how to do this automatically without having to manually move the user profile. i hope i explained this good enough. does any one have any suggestions?
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Creating a profile in different location
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apmcompcan
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Take a look at the Faronics Website. There are some documents there talking about a 2 partition setup where one volume is thawed. We find this works quite well.
To Create the profiles in a different place, a registry key is modified.
If the user has not logged into the computer they can be redirected by first changing the location that the operating system stores the profiles. This is done by editing the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Key: ProfilesDirectory
Default Value: %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings
By changing the value of the ProfilesDirectory key the operating system will create new user profiles in any location specified by the administrator making the change.
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Take a look at it; see if it answers your question.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Paul
To Create the profiles in a different place, a registry key is modified.
If the user has not logged into the computer they can be redirected by first changing the location that the operating system stores the profiles. This is done by editing the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Key: ProfilesDirectory
Default Value: %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings
By changing the value of the ProfilesDirectory key the operating system will create new user profiles in any location specified by the administrator making the change.
taken from
Take a look at it; see if it answers your question.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Paul
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