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What to expect...

Both Windows 7 and XP support Roaming Profiles, however, they each have their own. To help keep item availability, we've opted to use "Redirected Folders" for your Favorites, Documents, and Desktop folders. This has both good and bad attributes.

First, the bad...
Your Desktop and Documents items are not local to any machine you log onto. This means that opening, working with, and saving files that are in these 3 locations are subject to lag time associated with network constraints. To help alleviate this, you should consider copying anything you are working on to a local directory (create a directory on c:\), then move it back when you are finished.

Next, the good...
Most notably is the availability of the Desktop and Documents files across operating systems. Regardless of where you log in, whether in and XP lab, 7 lab, you always have the same Desktop, Documents, and mapped drives. Not a bad deal.

The next good point of interest, these files no longer roam with you, so we're no longer crossed between limiting the size of roaming profiles, or allowing profiles to balloon to sizes which take upwards of 10 minutes to load when logging on.

As the limit on size of this network location is approached, you will be given a message stating the size and a warning. Please be proactive about keeping this space below 250 MB, otherwise strange software problems may occur, and will most definitely occur once you've reached 300 MB. If you've reached 300 MB you must move or delete items before being able to write to these folder locations. If you are unable to delete items once surpassing the 3008 MB limit (Windows 7 only) you must "Shift"+"Del" the files and folders you want to delete, bypassing the Recycle Bin deletion.

How to find and remove these files?

Use the tools "Roaming Profile Size" and "Redirected Profile Size" in the Start Menu to find and move/remove files that are taking up space and are no longer needed.