Re: Home Folder

Okay that took care of one of my issues, I appreciate that!!

Now, how do I use and what are the purposes of the two entries: 'profile
path', and 'home' folder' (in the user and password dialogs)??.

---MikeF


On 5-Dec-2005, "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would think the easiest thing to do is to simply move your My Documents
> folder to the other drive. Select My Documents, then right click
> properties - move. My Documents will not contain emails however. Having
> said
> that you should still backup your important data files to external media
> such as cdrom/DVD disks as hard drives DO fail. I had one fail and the
> replacement failed two weeks later and I mean completely dead. Also if
> you
> are using EFS to encrypt files in XP Pro you MUST backup your EFS
> certificate/private key to password protected .pfx file for safe keeping
> off
> the computer also to protect your access to EFS files. --- Steve
.

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