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| Move a user profile to a different location |
| A user's profile stores his or her documents and contains application settings, all of which combine |
| to create the environment a user sees when working from a particular logon account. At some |
| point, you might need to move a profile for a user, such as after reinstalling Windows on the user's |
| computer or restoring a user's profile to a computer where a profile of the same name already |
| As an example, let's say you (or the user) reinstalled Windows 2000 on a computer named PC202. |
| The user's old profile is located in Documents And Settings\barney, but Windows points the user to |
| Documents And Settings\barney.PC202. One of the easiest ways to rectify this problem is to |
| simply point the user's profile back to the original location, assuming those documents and other |
| profile components are still valid. |
| To change profile location, log on as an administrator and open the Registry Editor to the key: |
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion |
| Then, look at the ProfileImagePath value for each profile and find the one that points to the new |
| profile location. (In this example, %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\barney.PC202.) |
| Change the value of the ProfileImagePath to point to the user's original profile location, then close |
| Finally, log off and log on as the user to verify that Windows is now using the desired profile |
| Note: Before making any registry edit, be sure to first back up the registry so that you can restore |
| it if something goes wrong. |
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