Question : Large Roaming Profiles

I have an issue with users experiencing long login times. I use roaming profiles - stored on the users home directory in a directory called Profiles - that can grow to 50+ MB. The clients are XP. A normal profile is about 13MB but this generally fills up with cached files accumulated through browsing the web using IE or Mozilla Firefox and quickly grows larger slowing down login times. We do not allow users to store files on their desktop, and they are usually pretty good about not putting large files in their desktop.
Is there a way that I can prevent these additional files that accumulate from browsing from the profile that is saved when a user logs out.

Answer : Large Roaming Profiles

There's a GPO to restrict the size of Profiles too that can address this issue. Look in the GP editor for these.

Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> System> Logon

#  Slow network connection timeout for user profiles (Kbps or milliseconds)
# Wait for remote user profile (enabled/disabled)
# Prompt user when slow link is detected (enabled/disabled)
# Log users off when roaming profile fails (enabled/disabled)

User Configuration> Administrative Templates> System> Logon/Logoff

# Limit profile size (Custom text message to user; plus max size in KB; plus Include registry in file list and/or Notify user when profile storage space is exceeded; plus Remind user every X minutes)

And the just the ie cache too.

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer Cache

Hope that gives you a few options.

Rob