Reducing Windows user profile size

[AJLynn]

Here's the situation. My department at school has a few hundred students using a computer lab with a few dozen computers. The network is 10 megabit and there's one Windows server handling all the profiles. During the summer they upgraded us to ACAD 2005, ADT 2005 and Adobe Creative Suite. According to our computer guy, these are the apps that add the most to the user profiles, (5MB for ACAD/ADT, 15 for Adobe, and then there's the usual MS stuff) and now there's over 40MB being transferred at logon (and probably logoff too).

 

So logging on and off is very slow. I'm the TA for the AutoCAD class, and when it starts everybody who was in the lab has to log off and everybody in the class logs on. The more people logging on or off at a time, the slower it is. Today the process was so slow it delated us by 15 minutes.

 

Does anybody have any suggestions for how to solve this problem? Our computer guy doesn't have any ideas besides waiting for us to move into our new space with a better network, but if I find out anything he'll do it. (For various reasons, profiles on the server works best, but are there ways to decrease the size or have it, say, keep the Adobe stuff local?)

[luckytohaveher]

Setup a batch file, for all users, that deletes the Adobe, Autocad, temp file location folders, and other unneccessary file content.

 

This is greatly help the situation.

 

Can new routers and nics be purchased for 1000baseT Ethernet? With only 10 machines, it can't be that much. Plus I imagine it would help all around.