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There are many tutorials like the following out there describing how to relocate the Chrome profile folder using the --user-data-dir="<Userdir>" command line parameter of "chrome.exe" and a appropriate shortcut:

http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/

Yet if you are using Windows 7 this method will screw up the nice little Taskbar-Menu Chrome provides. All those options will open a profile at the old location ("<win7_drive>:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data").

To solve this problem we simply delete the "User Data" directory and create a symbolic link to the folder we want our user data stored (i.e. "D:\data"):

• Right click on "Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Promt" an select "Run as Administrator"
• Type cd "<win7_drive>:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"
• Type rmdir /S /Q "User Data"
• Type mklink /D "User Data" "<new profile folder>"

That should have done the trick.

PS: By the way I know that this is simple but it took me quite long to remember that there was "mklink", which is a very strong sign, that I need to go to bed ASAP!

PSS: This should work for Windows Vista as well. Other Windows veriosns might need extra sofware to create symbolic links.