Logging on of XP is a problem because of the massive profiles it downloads.
Exactly. This has been a known problem for at least the past four years, so I don't know why it hasn't been fixed.
...most likely because Micro$oft's principal (most profitable) market is the corporate sector where most workers are allocated their own PC or at least their own desk. Overall the education sector is simply small fry to Microsoft, especially given the educational discounts they feel obliged to give. So why make things complicated with a non-standardised separate product line aimed at school students. Furthermore, Microsoft's preferred solution to any problems with overblown profiles is the brute-force approach ...go buy another server or three ...not forgetting the additional MS server software licenses these require!
When people started complaining of long login times I hacked an old directory-walking Perl script
Thanks for this Christopher. Unfortunately if you are running RM CC3 clobbered servers and workstations then one is locked out from applying such niceties, or at the very least RM will refuse to support systems where this has been applied and likely use this as an excuse to simply 'pass the buck'. David Bowles