Should I worry at all about Local Profile Size?

[Sandy Wood]

All of our XP systems are networked and we recently started seeing some
workstations that had corrupted user profile symptoms. We also had a few
systems that displayed some slow login times also.

I our infinite wisdom (or not) we thought that maybe user's local profile
sizes might be the issue so we scripted some commands to clean up user's
profiles by removing old TEMP folder data as well as Internet Temp files.

After a bit more research, it appears that local profile size may not really
be an issue to slow computer performance either logging on or shutting down
as opposed to roaming profiles.

Does anyone have any thoughts in this area?
--
Sandy Wood
Orange County District Attorney

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Sandy Wood wrote:
> All of our XP systems are networked and we recently started seeing
> some workstations that had corrupted user profile symptoms. We also
> had a few systems that displayed some slow login times also.
>
> I our infinite wisdom (or not) we thought that maybe user's local
> profile sizes might be the issue so we scripted some commands to
> clean up user's profiles by removing old TEMP folder data as well
> as Internet Temp files.
>
> After a bit more research, it appears that local profile size may
> not really be an issue to slow computer performance either logging
> on or shutting down as opposed to roaming profiles.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts in this area?

Corrupt profiles - sure.
Roaming profiles - sure.

Non-corrupt local profiles - maybe. If they have installed and changed and
enormous about of data and perhaps have gotten some shortcuts to apps that
don't exists any longer on the desktop/in the start menu - particularly to
networked items.

Easy test. Find someone who is logging in slowly. Reboot their computer,
logon first as someone with admin privs and rename their profile directory
to .old, then log out and have them logon. The first logon *may* take some
time. Once they are fully logged in - reboot and have them logon again. If
it is faster - you know it is something in the profile - fix accordingly.

To put the machine back the way it was - reboot, logon as someone with admin
privs and rename the new profile to something like .002 and then rename the
old profile to its original name and log out. Have the user log back in.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

[Sandy Wood]

Thanks for the input on this - I'll do some experimenting and see how I do.
--
Sandy Wood
Orange County District Attorney


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Sandy Wood wrote:
> > All of our XP systems are networked and we recently started seeing
> > some workstations that had corrupted user profile symptoms. We also
> > had a few systems that displayed some slow login times also.
> >
> > I our infinite wisdom (or not) we thought that maybe user's local
> > profile sizes might be the issue so we scripted some commands to
> > clean up user's profiles by removing old TEMP folder data as well
> > as Internet Temp files.
> >
> > After a bit more research, it appears that local profile size may
> > not really be an issue to slow computer performance either logging
> > on or shutting down as opposed to roaming profiles.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts in this area?
>
> Corrupt profiles - sure.
> Roaming profiles - sure.
>
> Non-corrupt local profiles - maybe. If they have installed and changed and
> enormous about of data and perhaps have gotten some shortcuts to apps that
> don't exists any longer on the desktop/in the start menu - particularly to
> networked items.
>
> Easy test. Find someone who is logging in slowly. Reboot their computer,
> logon first as someone with admin privs and rename their profile directory
> to .old, then log out and have them logon. The first logon *may* take some
> time. Once they are fully logged in - reboot and have them logon again. If
> it is faster - you know it is something in the profile - fix accordingly.
>
> To put the machine back the way it was - reboot, logon as someone with admin
> privs and rename the new profile to something like .002 and then rename the
> old profile to its original name and log out. Have the user log back in.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>