Windows 10: Move users to another drive

Discus and support Move users to another drive in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; With DaveM121's help I was able to fix a User Shell Folder problem by editing the registry entry. But that was one problem out of the bigger problem.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by ScottInTexas, Feb 12, 2024.

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    With DaveM121's help I was able to fix a User Shell Folder problem by editing the registry entry. But that was one problem out of the bigger problem. There are a lot of %USERPROFILE% entries in the same list. What is the value of user profile? It must be at least partially c:\ because if I go to the key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders, I see all of the folders except Documents being on C:\. Can I just change all of the values that point to c:\... to d:\...? The C drive is crammed full of things that Windows created and then it ha

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