Large Users Profile - Windows 7 - Machine running slowly

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Published on 2010-03-18T15:10:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 15:11 UTC
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I have the MD of a client of ours who has a Windows 7 Profile that is currently 14GB thanks to Videos/Music and Documents. The first thing we did was to switch from roaming to local. What I need to know is now the profile is local am I wasting my time by reducing it any further? Does it really make a difference to performance having a large local user profile?

Only the 4GB outlook ost that talks to the network frequently.

Thanks in advance....

Richard

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