How do you think/know it affects system performance?
What can you do to decrease the size?
I have, quite amazingly, reached some kind of personal record: 877 KB. I suppose the reason is that few of my applications store anything in Documents and Settings.
…would be: minimize the amount of files and folders in your user profile folder. Take Firefox for example. I noticed that it stores many megabytes in the user profile folder. This, along with other things, made me switch to Opera which lets you put the application settings in the installation folder itself. Thus I was able to get rid of quite a lot of space in the Windows user profile folder.
However, I wonder how much difference it actually makes for performance. Logging in should be a little faster but what do I know? Nothing, really. :-X
I keep trying Opera but for some reason (maybe NoScript) i seem to keep going back to FF.Web pages in Opera seem to take an age to render,its fine at first then the last bit seems to take ~20 secs. Maybe im not giving it a good enough try,ive got Diskshield up and running now so maybe another dabble wouldnt do any harm.
On a serious note: I achieved this by deleting the GIMP settings. Which, of course, isn’t sustainable as I had to relaunch GIMP to save the screen shot. So, as much as I actually had a size of 542 KB, now it’s back at 878 KB. Still pretty fine I think. :a0