The tutorial on tenforums for moving the Users folder did not work. There was an issue at the Sysprep step, which couldn't verify my Windows installation. At that point, I switched to the sevenforums instructions, planning to re-activate the users afterwards. I ended up not using D:/relocate.xml.
- Win-X, then open the admin command prompt.
- net user Administrator /active:yes
- Log out, then login as the Administrator (default: no password)
- Win-X, then open the admin command prompt.
- For each user, run the following. Don't forget the slash. This command resolves issues with missing Start menu and search bar. net user /active:no
- Open Start > Settings, then go to Accounts > Other users and make sure no other users are present.
- Win-R, then run diskmgmt.msc.
- Change D: drive to X:, then back to D:. This is to make sure Windows doesn't reassign the Users drive to a different letter later automatically.
- Create the directory D:\Users.
- Use copy-paste to copy over all the user folders to D:\Users, except for Administrator.
- Win-R, then run regedit.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- To make sure future accounts are put on the D: drive, change ProfilesDirectory from %SystemDrive%/Users to D:\Users
- Inside the current registry group, find the really long keys beginning with S-1-5-21. For each of those, change ProfileImagePath so that it points to the D: drive instead of to the C: drive.
- Go back to the administrator's command prompt.
- For each of the moved users, run: net user /active:yes
- From Start, type Control Panel, and open User Accounts > Manage another account.
- Reset every user's password.
- Try logging into one of the users
- If the Start Menu doesn't respond, Win-X, open the Administrator's Command Prompt, and run powershell. Then, run: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppXPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.Ins tallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
- Go to their Documents folder, and get Properties on it.
- Verify that the folder is located on the D: drive.
- Log back into an Admin account.
- Delete the old user folders.