Win 7 profile size issues

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RyanETF

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We are currently testing Win 7 in a pilot group of users. We (for some reason) do not use network based profiles (which has caused several issues thus far in the project) and as I was doing a little bit of research on the Win 7 machine I have noticed that the users profiles are HUGE. They range from 30 to 70 gigs. I dont understand what is going on. I went home and looked at my profile on my Win 7 machine and it is over 80 gig. This seems to be odd to me that a user profile that is maybe 300 mg on XP is 70 gig on Win 7. Any ideas?
 

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Windows 7 ultimate
Do you mean the users only have local profiles, rather than using a domain?

Either way, you can use something like WinDirStat (freeware) to see what exactly is using up that space.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7-2600
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3
Memory
12 GB Patriot Extreme DDR3-1333
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GTX 470
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell UltraSharp 2209WA
Hard Drives
OCZ Agility3 240 GB, WD5001AALS, WD7501AALS
PSU
OCZ ModStream 700W
Case
CoolerMaster HAF 912 Advanced
Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus
Yes they only have local profiles. I will try the app and see what it tells me. thanks
I guess I have over looked the my real question, why do windows 7 profiles grow so big? are things installed to the users profile instead of program files? I guess that i just dont understand what is going on to cause the issue to begin with.
 
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Windows 7 ultimate
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