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discoboy
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 07:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The User Profiles sheet (from System Properties) shows the three user profiles and the guest profile I have on my Windows XP Home computer.

I am the main (and heavy) user and the size is 425MB. My wife is an infrequent user but her size is 1.65GB. What does this size mean?

I have reduced her IE settings to 50MB and 7 days. System Restore is down to 5% and the Recycle Bin is at 10%.
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Alopex
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 08:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Has your wife (or yourself) installed more software on the PC whilst on her user account than you have on yours? Just a shot in the dark but that may be contirbuting to it.
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discoboy
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 16:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I doubt it very much she is an infrequent user. Are the installations kept in the Application Data folder?
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mikeh0303
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 16:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it could be the files she keeps on her desktop.
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discoboy
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 16:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well neither of us have much more than 3 or 4 shortcuts. I am interested to find out what is causing this - all suggestions welcome.

On a related point, when switching from another user to mine (all are already logged in and have active programs) I often have to login twice. The first takes so long that just as the desktop and active programs are displayed it goes back to the screen saver and then the login screen and I have to login again. Any idea why this would be so?
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mikeh0303
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 17:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well, to stop if from going to the log-in screen after it goes to the screen saver:

right click desktop
select properties
go to the screen saver tab
deselect "on resume password protect"
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discoboy
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 17:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
But I want that option selected.

The problem I have is that for some reason my (re-)login is taking so long that the screen saver kicks in. What would be causing this? I have 1GB of ram on an Intel D820 chip.
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mikeh0303
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_ 		30. April 2007 @ 18:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
could be the programs that are starting up with the computer.

There is a great program you can get to fix this. And it clease spyware too.

http://www.download.com/Advanced-Windows...tml?tag=lst-0-6

once you install it, open it and click scan. then when it is done click repar, then go to the Start up scan and stop some of the programs you dont need to start with the computer from starting with the computer.
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discoboy
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_ 		7. May 2007 @ 04:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I downloaded and ran Advanced WindowsCare 2 and it highlighted a number of errors which I gave the go ahead to tidy up. I rebooted and all seemed OK until I re-visited this site and found all the formatting has gone. The background is blue and the text is black. There is html everywhere. This is also happening for another (bank) site that I regularly visit. This doesn't affect IE. I have reinstalled Firefox but to no avail.
Any idea what went wrong?
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