If you store files and folders in My Documents, those files add to the size of your user profile, just the same as if they were on the desktop. Remember, keeping large items off the desktop and saving them else where (such as My Computer) may be the difference in gaining back lost performance with your computer… especially after you have exhausted all other methods.īetter yet, just add it your list of cleanup routines.īloat is never good but the advice you have posted here is…well…wrong. Many programs allow you to change the default settings for save data. Don't allow programs to save data to your profile.This will allow convenient access as if the item was on the desktop and keep your user profile size in check. If you don't like to use shortcuts (or have too many of them), add a toolbar for My Computer or any drive and folder on the taskbar.Instead of saving items on the desktop directly, create shortcuts on your desktop to those items.Save large files in the same locations as folders instead of on the desktop.
Create folders in My Documents or on another drive or partition.To help keep your profile size small and under control, follow these simple guidelines: While your profile is made up of settings for mouse, Window based applications, third party programs and other items, cleaning up your desktop can improve system performance if disk cleanup tools seem to fall short in making improvements. Pretty soon I WILL start having problems and should clean it up now. If you think about that for a second, it's almost a half a gigabyte in size. From here, you can see the size of your profile.Īs you can see my User Profile is 489MB. The User Profiles window will display all user accounts on your Computer.
( NOTE: Screenshots are from Vista and will look similar on XP.)
0 kommentar(er)
