Ntuser.dat file keeps growing too large!

masterk · 2 Oct 2007 at 13:58

Hi guys, having a problem with roaming profiles here, the Ntuser.dat seems to keep growing over a short amount of time, racking up the space needed on the server to store them.

It seems to only happen when users started using Windows XP (rather than Windows 2000 which was fine).

I tried NTregopt, it reduced the size a bit, but nowhere near enough, ive looked through HKCU but cant see anything glaringly obvious.

Does anyone have any ideas whats causing it or any ideas on how to clear them all down?

Cheers

Burnsy2023 · 2 Oct 2007 at 16:23

Can you not open the registry hive and find where all the keys are coming from?

Burnsy

IAmATeaf · 2 Oct 2007 at 21:59

What size are they growing too? A normalr hive without much installed say, office and few other apps would be around 500k in size to start off with. Most of our users have files around the 1.5mb mark but they don't tend to grow.

bledd · 3 Oct 2007 at 12:42

try this tool, have heard it works wonders http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837115