Comments on: How to Change User Profile Default Location in Windows 7

By: WITech

WITech — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:14:16 +0000

I ran into this problem. Turned out the permissions on the secondary drive were set to only allow admins access. Manually duplicate the entries from your c drive to your d drive. System entries may be missing. The Authenticated Users group requires custom permissions and will result in 2 entries for that group.

By: Connot

Connot — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:42:55 +0000

Totally new to this advanced windows stuff, so a few things are stumping me.

Do I need to download a program to move these files, or is it done in command prompt under administrator ? Will this make is so the Documents, etc etc on the start menu point to these folders on the new drive ?

By: Khoo

Khoo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:08:01 +0000

Hi Peter,

I think I am having the same problem you had.

I got the msg “User profile service failed logon. Profile could not be loaded.” this is when I attempted to login to the new created user.

You resolved it by copying the default directory to the new position(D. Is this the same default directory mentioned in step 1 and 2?:
Copy the original Default profile folder in C:\users to the new location. (by default this “Default” directory is hidden, you need to go Tools > Folder Options > View (tab) > Show Hidden files, folders, and drivers.)

2. Copy the original Public profile folder in C:\users to the new location. (lets say D:\ drive)

Did all that earlier but still cannot login. Did I miss out something?

Thanks. Khoo

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:43:17 +0000

Does your computer belong to a network domain? It looks like your user account used to log into that machine doesn’t have the proper permission on your computer.

Cheers.

By: bill patterson

bill patterson — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:34:24 +0000

HELP! I have had my windows 7 laptop for about a year–no problem until yesterday. When I booted it up my desktop had changed with about 30 files missing with this message: “you have been logged on with a temporary profile. You cannot access your files, and files created in this profile will be deleted when you log off.” I am the only one who uses this computer and don’t know why this happened. I ran AVG virus scan and found no problem. HP tech help insisted that I just set up a new profile and recover files but when I tried this through Carbonite, everything disappears when I turn the computer off and reboot–just like the message says.

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By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:45:16 +0000

That’s was my mistake.
I only tested for new users created after the modification. The problem was I forgot to copy the default directory to the new location. After I did that, everything is running fine.

The only thing I would like to do but cannot:
I would like to keep the old profile with the old account but only move to the new location.
It looks like what we did is creating a template to create new users. After new users are created, we are stuck with that.

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:05:30 +0000

Hi Peter,

Did you actually create the folder in the new location before logging in as a new user id? It seems that the folder has to be created first.

Cheers.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:56:48 +0000

I follow the procedure but it does not work. Maybe because I have updated with all hot fixes from Microsoft.
Here is what I did:
Install a fresh Windows 7 to VMware machine.
Modified the registry with the above instruction.
Restart the machine.
Login with an Administrator ID.
Create a new ID.
Check at the c:\users directory. No user name directory was created.
Check at the new location, no user name directory was created.
Logout and login with the new ID. Cannot login, logon services fails, the logon screen display again!
There is something wrong. My Windows 7 is build 7600 with all updates and hotfixes applied up to date (5-07-2010).

By: Touth

Touth — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:16:24 +0000

To copy de user folder, try fastcopy.exe
^^