1.5GB user profile in Win2000

["A. J. Moss" <ajmoss_throwaway_account_001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My father has been complaining that his computer takes several minutes
to shut down Windows 2000. In System Properties/User Profiles, his
profile is listed as type local, size 1,516,843KB.

Is there anything that can be done to edit or repair this down to a
more manageable size, or does it need to be deleted? And if it is
deleted, what sort of information will need to be copied across to the
new profile?