Large temp folder in roaming profile

[Maligkong]

We have an NT 4.0 domain, use roaming profiles for each user. Some of the profiles contain a TEMP folder, some don't. Some user profiles that do have a temp folder get very large (close to 1 GB), all of it is junk. This makes for very slow logon. Questions; (1)what determines whether or not there is a temp folder in the profile? (2) how to delete these files automatically before updating to server?

Thanks

 

[munkeymagic]

The way that we've done this is to create a group policy on the domain, this stops any applications creating files on the users profile i.e Internet cookies, Temp internet files and temporary files. Have a look and see what you think.

 

[wolluf]

NT profiles don't normally contain a Temp folder (are they NT workstations? - 2k/XP ones have \Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp). You can set a policy which excludes the copying of specific folders in the roaming profile - but I'm not sure if it would work with a 'non-standard' profile folder - though it should with 'Local Settings'.

Can't you just run a job on the server when everyone's logged off, removing all the 'temp' folders from roaming profiles (server copy - so it won't be there when they next log on)?