Moving configuration/preferences to another partition?

[junk.brandoncloud596343]

I was told to try coming here for some support, hopefully you can point me in the right direction.


Here's the situation:
Our company was requested to set up a classroom that is used for teaching AutoCAD. I believe they're using AutoCAD 2010 or 2011. It's running fine, except for one thing: the computers are frozen, and won't retain settings.

We have the computers frozen with Deep Freeze, so the students cannot screw things up. A reboot later, and the computer comes back to a set configuration.

Unfortunately, there are settings that are not being saved, configurations, preferences, etc. Odds are they're being saved in some local settings area on the C drive. We need to figure out how to move these to the T drive, where data is saved between reboots.

I would imagine finding the folder will be easy enough, but I'm expecting there to be registry changes as well that would be needed to point AutoCAD from something like c:\users\student1\appdata\local\autocad to t:\student1\autocad.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Ed Jobe]

Welcome to AUGI.

Can you run acad from the T:\ drive under the profile that is being used for the copy? The easiest way would be to configure that profile both the OS profile and the acad profile that gets used. You can specify in the acad shortcut, which profile to use. Can you specify what is not being saved that you want to have saved?

[jaberwok]

Many of acad's profile settings are saved in the registry.
These settings can be exported (from Options/Profiles) as a .ARG file (a .REG file by another name) and the .ARG file can be run/applied as part of your startup process.

[junk.brandoncloud596343]

I definitely don't want to move the whole user profile to the T:\ drive. That would essentially remove the benefit of having it frozen, especially in light of the malware attacks that are happening these days.

I just want to move certain folders that hold data, not wholesale profile info. (Documents is redirected to a server where it is backed up. Desktop is redirected to the T drive as it isn't vital.)



Where are these settings in the registry? I'm more than happy to export them and launch it as a batch file during startup.

[Ed Jobe]

I definitely don't want to move the whole user profile to the T:\ drive. That would essentially remove the benefit of having it frozen, especially in light of the malware attacks that are happening these days.

I just want to move certain folders that hold data, not wholesale profile info. (Documents is redirected to a server where it is backed up. Desktop is redirected to the T drive as it isn't vital.)



Where are these settings in the registry? I'm more than happy to export them and launch it as a batch file during startup.I think you are confusing the word profile. That's why I mentioned a windows profile and an acad profile (type OPTIONS then go to the Profiles tab. This is the one John mentions exporting.). What I was talking about, is going to the server that hosts the share you are mapping as T:, log in to windows as a local admin and then run acad and configure it the way you want. This is the least "technical" method, i.e. you don't have to worry about where things are stored. This will take care of file customization (menus, support files, etc.). But registry settings will be per user, so you need to also do export the acad profile from the Options>Profiles tab. This creates a *.reg file with an .arg ext. You then specify this file's path in the desktop shortcut that launches acad (Use the /P command line switch). You might also want to modify the shortcuts that get installed to the Start menu. You can do this from the install wizard.

[jaberwok]

Thanks for clarifying, Ed.