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For every user that logs on to your Windows XP computer, a new "profile" is created. The profile contains information about the things that are specific to that user, such as screen savers, sounds, printers (network), colors, email, and so forth. These profiles can grow quite large and can consume disk space. If there are users who no longer log into your computer, you can free up disk space by deleting them.
To delete a profile, simply right-click the My Computer icon and choose Properties (or press Windows-Break). Click the Advanced tab (in windows 2000, there is a User Profiles tab instead). In the middle section called User Profiles, click the Settings button. You can see from the listing what the size of the user profile is, and also the last date it was used. Select (click) the name of the user profile to delete, and click the Delete button. Note that you can also copy the user profile to another location, which might be a good idea before you delete it.
Tip-within-a-tip: Sometimes a profile can become corrupt, which produces very strange symptoms such as problems with using network printers, or email, etc. Deleting the profile means that the next time the user logs in they will have all the default settings, but it will often clear up strange problems.