We discovered on several Terminal Server Farms (RDSH farms) that there were a lot of local profiles with the folder names like:

NickvanVuren
NickvanVuren.CONTOSO
NickvanVuren.CONTOSO.001
NickvanVuren.CONTOSO.002

This was strange behavior because we have applied a Group Policy Object with the option “Delete cached copies of roaming profiles”.

The strange thing is, that when i looked into the folders, there were a lot of *.tmp files that are locked.
[email protected] files are left behind in Temp folder after printing.

 

After some research, we find out that these files are coming from Adobe Reader.

When a user print a document out of Adobe Reader, the *.tmp is created in the following local profile folder.
C:\Users\NickvanVuren.CONTOSO\AppData\Local\Temp\9

Cause the files are locked, you can’t delete the local profiles. This is only possible after a reboot.

After some research, we discovered that the solution is pretty simple:

Download file (acroct.zip) and extract it in the C:\Windows folder. see attached file

So; now you should  have a file named “acroct.ini” in the folder “C:\Windows\”.

 

Now when a user logs on to the farm and starts Adobe Reader (PDF file), prints this file and logs off the local profile is removed.