One of the most major parts of my windows 7 installs is changing the paths of my user folders. I install windows 7 alot and i got a bit sick of having to do that every time... so i decided to fully automate the process!
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This usb portable program starts by asking you to select a...
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I've noticed several threads discussing some of the annoying "protections" put in place by Microsoft in Win7. On the one hand, at this moment, I share the sentiment that it's my computer, therefore, I ought to be able to access whatever I want. On the other hand, I'm all too aware that rogue...
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this is a learning center. The user profile starts out as default at the beginning class session. After the last class session, I want to reset it to default for the next class.
what users\profile\folders need to be saved and restored to insure per user app & system configurations are...
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I am having trouble setting up junctions and I think it isn't working because some of the folders/filenames have spaces and it messes up the syntax. Does anyone know how to get it to work?
I just installed a new 64 gig SSD in my computer. I also have a 2T secondary hard drive.
The SSD is not big enough to contain all the stuff that will eventually be in "My documents",
i.e. under "users" so I need to move the users directory to my secondary hard drive but have
windows behave as it...
I've spent a lot of time searching for a solution and I'm hoping someone can give me some fresh ideas on how to tackle this annoying issue.
My "Recent Places" link is always empty. Looking at ..\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent reveals that items edited (so called "Recent Items")...
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The "All Programs" menu off of the start menu isn't working any more, at least not when logged in as me (it works logged in as Administrator).
I think this is related to the fact that I move a lot of stuff off of my C: drive (SSD) onto the E: drive, with Junctions to make the paths from C...
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I've writen some scripts to change the C:\user to an other partition.
all seems to work but I can not change the security on the SYMBLINK and Junctions (not the directories)
assuming all in c:\users\%USERNAME% is machine independent ...
All data will be recreated at first login anyhow...