Local Profile too large

[Guest]

I've just noticed that my local user profile is 2.86GB. I checked this
because I always get the 1517 error:

Windows saved user ************* registry while an application or service
was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

I was wondering if size of the profile might cause this? I've already have
UPHClean installed and running, so it's not that. I just changed the
environment variable TEMP and TMP to point to systemroot. How can I reduce
the size of my profile? And what makes up the profile?

THanks.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

To start with delete all your temporary internet files/cookies via Internet
Explorer tools/internet options - general page. You can do it manually or
use a program like CCleaner that can find and delete a lot of junk on your
computer. You can check your individual folders in your user profile under
documents and settings and most likely your My Documents folder is most of
the file storage. If your applications store your media files there for
music, video, etc it can grow rather quickly. You can move those files to
other folders if you want but I doubt they are the problem. See if CCleaner
helps at all and if you have not done so lately defrag your hard drive and
run CheckDisk selecting the option to fix file problems automatically. In
Windows Explorer select your drive, right click for properties and then
select tools to be able to defrag and use CheckDisk. You wan to run
CheckDisk first. --- Steve

http://www.ccleaner.com/ --- CCleaner