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Nicholas Baker - 21 Sep 2007 23:40 GMT

I thought I would be clever and hoped I would gaining a new clean and small
User profile because the profile was 50MBs. I created a new user as
administrator and changed all to how I wanted it and looked at the new User
profile. It is more than 2GBs. Can I refresh the profile to have it small?

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Shenan Stanley - 21 Sep 2007 23:57 GMT

> I thought I would be clever and hoped I would gaining a new clean
> and small User profile because the profile was 50MBs. I created a
> new user as administrator and changed all to how I wanted it and
> looked at the new User profile. It is more than 2GBs. Can I refresh
> the profile to have it small?

50 MB is not a *huge* profile - considering I make many default user
profiles of 23MB or so in size these days.

If you have a 2GB profile, however - I suggest you remove any files you have
(pictures, installables, documents, spreadsheets, etc) and email
(contacts\actual messages) you have located in that profile. No need for
all that in a default user profile. My Documents might be the first place
to look after the desktop.

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Nicholas Baker - 23 Sep 2007 07:18 GMT

I really don't have a lot of Documents. I do alot of web browsing, I play
online games, I have Farstones Virtual Drive Pro 11.5(the up to date
version)...I keep the system clean clean clean. I have a feeling the
Farstone product is responsible...ding!...I just clicked...Farstone stores
VCDs in the Documents folder, which is what it makes when it makes virtual
CDs and I have a bout 8 game CDs in the VCD folder.
I noticed yesterday and again today there is some noise like static through
the headphones when I play games. Today straight after a Disk Check (before
Windows starts) there was an error message saying Windows did not start
properly...the message explained a driver was a problem. I am using USB
headphones and the manufacturer does not have an updated driver. I installed
the headphones and driver 2 days ago. Not everything has static noises, just
the games.

>> I thought I would be clever and hoped I would gaining a new clean
>> and small User profile because the profile was 50MBs. I created a
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> all that in a default user profile. My Documents might be the first place
> to look after the desktop.

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peter - 22 Sep 2007 15:16 GMT

If you still have that 50mb User Profile ...and now realise that its size is
fine....you could of course delete that new user and regain that space.
peter

>I thought I would be clever and hoped I would gaining a new clean and small
>User profile because the profile was 50MBs. I created a new user as
>administrator and changed all to how I wanted it and looked at the new User
>profile. It is more than 2GBs. Can I refresh the profile to have it small?

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