Posts made in May, 2009

Bloated Windows: Why Oversized Profiles Slow Down Your Computer

Posted by Paul on May 27, 2009 in Blog | 4 comments

For those that don’t live in the Windows world – good for you. There won’t be much for you to learn here. However, for the majority of us that have to work with Windows in some way almost every day, oversized profiles are a big hassle. They take up a ton of disk space, slow down your computer’s performance, and even cause problems with installing or running applications. What’s in a user’s profile anyway? In this blog post, I’m going to answer a few questions: What is a Windows User Profile and how does it work? (Windows Admins -- feel free to skip) What kind of information is...