Papercut does not take long to load if you copy the "cache" folder for the client to the C drive. You'll have to do some research on slimming down the profile. 

Geng 



> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Will Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Building profiles in a thawspace would be a partial solution; it'd allow for shorter login times if people go back to the same computer.
> 
> It'd be nice if we could pre-generate profiles for everybody, but the numbers don't work.
> 
> Each profile runs to to about 100 MB each;
> We have 208 GB free on each lab machine;
> and about 15,000 potential users.
> 
> So generating profiles for all of them -- assuming five minutes per profile -- would take 52 days of computing time at the beginning of each term, and require about 1.5 TB of space on each computer.
> 
> I'm hoping somebody will know a nifty trick for slimming down what needs to be created, or making PaperCut load faster, or something.
> 
> Will