Huge profiles in windows 2000

[Tsaico]

I have my main profile and it tells me the size is over 860,000KB. I dumped all the temporary internet files and the histories. Even a few thousand cookies but I only trimmed about 200 Megs, (now I am down to 860,000KB) I don't have anything but shortcuts on my desktop, so no apps or large files. What is keeping my profile so large? And how do I trim it down?

 

[mobogasm]

check the properties of each folder and it will determine where the size is lying.

 

[spyordie007]

I would start with 2 things:

\my documents\
\local settings\temp\

but basically like mobogasm said the best thing to do is to look at each folder and find out where the large file(s) are.

 

[nightowl]

If you use Outlook or Outlook Express your e-mail is stored in your profile folder. My PC here at work currently has 608MB in my profile folder and most of that is probably e-mail.

 

[Netopia]

I find that TreeSize is sometimes in INVALUABLE resource. It's freeware. Here's a link to download it.

It shows you sort of an explorer view of all your directories on a drive or from whatever "top" directory you choose, and then it sorts them all by size so that you can easily see where all your disk space is going.

There are some things that it can't show, but these are generally the things that are hidden and protected by the system in Win2k and XP.

Try it out. I give you a personal guarantee that you will LOVE this little piece of freeware.

Joe