Chapter 19. What Is a User Profile?
Have you ever noticed that the first time a particular user logs on to a machine it takes a little while longer for the shell (typically explorer.exe) to start up? You can hear the disk drive whirring and clunking—obviously something is going on. Subsequent logons are much faster. What's happening is this: A profile is being created on the machine for the user.
A user profile consists of a home directory for the user, along with some standard subdirectories and files that allow the operating system to store per-user settings. If you're sitting in front of a computer, bring up Explorer and surf to the Documents and Settings folder, which is on the drive where the operating system was installed. You should see ...
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