How do i change where Wireshark stores profiles?

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Wireshark doesn't use %HOME on Windows. Per the Wireshark man page, "The personal preferences file is looked for in ... %APPDATA%\Wireshark\preferences (or, if %APPDATA% isn’t defined, %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Wireshark\preferences) on Windows systems."

So if you're able to manually set %APPDATA% to C:\Users\Username, then I think that should work for you; however, if you can't change the environment variable, then you ought to at least be able to do this with by wrapping Wireshark into a batch file, the contents of which is something such as:

@echo off
set APPDATA=C:\Users\Username
"C:\Program Files\Wireshark\Wireshark.exe"

Windows

• Control Panel
• System
• Advanced System Settings
• Environment Variables
• Locate the section user variables for x (x is the current Windows user)
• Create a new variable with the name WIRESHARK_CONFIG_DIR
• Create a value for WIRESHARK_CONFIG_DIR by using browse. Locate or create a new folder for your Wireshark profiles.
• Click OK to accept the values.

Sorry, I don't have enough points to upload an image.

BTW, DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP THIS FOLDER.