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Sorry if my answer didn't quite measure up to your expectations
but I tried to answer the question that was asked. Your "My
Documents" folder represents around 70% of your current User
Profile. I think if you check the Temp folder located in
C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Local Settings you'll
find a sizeable portion of the remaining 30%.
Maybe instead of being worried about the size of your User
Profile you should consider getting a second hard drive and move
some of your files to it. Either that or move some of the files
that you don't use on a regular basis to some form of removable
media (CD, DVD). The real problem here isn't the size of your
User Profile. It's the fact that your 40 GB HD is almost full.
The only way to correct that is to make some space or add another
drive.
In the short term there are some other things you can do to free
up space. Turn off the Indexing Service. Then run Disk Cleanup
and make sure that "Catalog files for the Indexer Service" is
checked.
Nepatsfan
"Len Dolby" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
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> "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXVIII.com> wrote in message
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>> How much stuff have you saved to your My Documents folder?
>
> ANSWER - Overall - 74 directories, about 1Gb total. So
> where/how should I save documents if not in "My Documents"?
> Implication I understand is that "My Documents" is part of User
> Profile - what's a directory that isn't ?
>
>> When's the last time you emptied your Temporary Internet
>> Files?
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> ANSWER - Do this at least 3/4 times a week - every time I do
> internet financial transaction.
>
>>
>> You might want to try the following:
>> Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Internet Options.
>> On the General page select Delete Files in the TIF section.
>> In the box that pops up check "Delete all offline content" as
>> well.
>> Click OK.
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> ANSWER - DONE - as stated above, done regularly incl "offline
> content" as routine
>
>> Back on the General page select Settings.
>> Change the amount of disk space to use to a more reasonable
>> amount (100 MB should be fine). That will limit how large it
>> gets in the future.
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> ANSWER - ALREADY SET at 80 Mb
>
> So, the open question is where is "safe" to store documents,
> that doesn't affect User Profile ???
>
> Thanks for help to date - look forward to the answer.
> Sincerely, Len.
>
>> Nepatsfan
>> "Len Dolby" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
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>>> Having only a 40Gb HDD, space is at a premium, hence this
>>> question.
>>>
>>> My PC is stand-alone, used by me alone. My "User Profile"
>>> occupies 1.4Gb -
>>>
>>> What the blue blazes is in a "user profile" that needs that
>>> much space - and, is there any way to reduce it ?
>>>
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