i am preparing upgrade from win8 to 8.1
all users are defaulted at another drive (d drive), not system drive
so i have to remove all the users in order to have upgrade without a need for clean reinstallation
this requirement make me (other system admin in the world) very troublesome
i have to be very careful when dealing user data files.
in official way, the user is deleted and all his files are deleted too.
is it possible to keep the user data files? the files size may be over 2xxG.
i do not wish to copy files before removal of user account. it wastes lots of time.
i tried to rename the user profile folder and remove user registry under profilelist registry.
it seems not Ok. any suggestion please. Thanks.