Reminders

Original of this guide exist in http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/ . I have changed some parts and omitted others to suit my purpose. [...] I wanted my actual user profile folder to be moved to a seperate partition/volume, including registry settings. I discovered that it is not actually that hard, provided you're comfortable with mass replacing registry keys and values.

Windows Vista introduces a fundamental change in the way user data is stored. The XP-style Documents And Settings folder is gone, replaced by the Users folder, which is located in the root of the system drive. Each user account has its own profile folder here, which contains 11 folders, each devoted to a different type of data.