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I face a major problem with Internet Explorer 10 and 11 after moving the user profiles from C:\Users to another partition (namely D:\Users).
I followed this (german) tutorial http://windows-hilfe-forum.de/f16/benutzerordner-komplett-auf-andere-partition-verschieben-1076/ and on first sight everything worked out quite well.
However, a problem with Internet Explorer and its "Protected Mode" feature (Internet Options/Security) persists: Whenever I try downloading an (*.exe)-file, it renemes the extension from foo.exe to foo_exe. This is really annoying.
I have seen this post here on superuser.com, but this does not help me fixing the problem. IE10 downloading files has .exe become _exe
My googling and reading so far makes me believe, that Internet Explorer with "Protected Mode" enabled does download all files with potential evil extensions (e. g. *.exe) to a special virtualized folder with the renaming of the extension. Only after user approval it moves those files to the normal download folder and restores the correct extension. --> It looks like IE has trouble with these virtualized folders after moving the user profiles to another location. So this must be an issue with the path to the temporary internet files and the respective virtualized folders.
Does anybody know how to fix this trouble permanently and where the paths to these spooky folders are stored and defined? (I don't want to turn off protected mode even though this is a short term remedy)
The problem does not occur when creating a new user profile in the new profiles location. It only occurs with user profiles that were present in the old c:\users location and then were moved to the new profiles folder.