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#Windows 7 how to change default file location update#
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This blog post provides a bit more (too much) detail about this issue, plus a script to help recreating the symlinks/junctions. If you don't recreate them, you won't notice immediately as most (if not all) have the hidden attribute anyway, but you may experience reverse compatibility problems with non-Vista apps. In this example, you dont need to fiddle with the home. Lots of comments on Josh's blog mention ROBOCOPY, which you can't use to copy Junctions. If you can control your own location of the Emacs installation (e.g., putting it wherever you want, or at least have write access to the installation), then you can take complete control by using something like site-start.el to load your own init.el and you no longer need a. WHATEVER you choose to do, you will need to get familiar with symlinks/junctions. Select 'TMP' Variable and change it's value to the same folder). Enter new Variable Value (the location of your new folder e.g 'C: \Temp') and Click OK. Click on 'Temp' Variable and click 'Edit.'.

#Windows 7 how to change default file location update#

The find and replace solution is also detailed on the previously linked page, but it turns out that you still have to create the symlink, otherwise Windows Update has problems. Create a folder named 'Temp' where you want the new folder to be located, (if you haven't already done so). Or you can boot from a Recovery disk and copy stuff across.įor problem 2, you can either do a find and replace everywhere in the registry (risky), or create a symlink/junction from the default location to the new location.

create a new user (which will be created in the new location).

copy Default and Public folders to the new location.

Changing where windows goes to look for the profiles on startup.įor problem 1, you can either go the round about route:.

Once the file is in a folder, if it is deemed by Win7 to be a member, it will appear as part of that library. It is a 'virtual' 'place.' Files can really only be stored in folders that are part of the storage tree. There is no storage location for libraries.

Windows 'locking' some files, so you can't copy them (ntuser.dat) The concept of libraries in Windows 7 has been confusing to most everybody.

There are two scenarios here: a new install, and a machine that is already installed/used.įor a new install, you can (apparently) modify the autounattend.xml file (unresearched link here, no guarantees, I haven't tried)įor a machine that is already installed, there are two problems to overcome: I've spent a long time researching this and finally managed to do it on my own machine.