Bridge CC slow? Here's a fix for some situations

Like so many of you, I have been having issues with my Adobe Bridge CS6 & Adobe Bridge CC 2014 installations both being very slow (5-10 seconds to open any context menus, folder update taking minutes, etc). Even though my machine was more than capable, something was limiting my Bridge performance.
After experimenting, I finally came up a solution that fixed it for me and others in my company.
It seemed like any action I took in Bridge was making it ping my distant network drives, which added a huge delay to any operations. I realized that this might be stemming from the fact that my company operated a Windows desktop syncing server / domain (no clue what i's actually called..) that would back up our user profiles automatically. By creating a local user and running Bridge through that (even while logged in on my main account), my performance is 1000% better.
Here's what I did:
1) While logged in on my main account, I created a new basic user on my local machine following these guidelines, writing down the username/password that I used for this new user
2) I went into "All Programs", right clicked the Bridge CC 2014 icon, and chose "Send To > Desktop (Create new shortcut)"
3) On my desktop, I right clicked the newly created Bridge icon and selected "Properties"
4) Under the "Shortcut > Target" option, I entered: C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:COMPNAME\NEWUSER /savecred "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)\Bridge.exe" (Where COMPNAME is is my computer name and NEWUSER is the username of the user I created in step 1)
5) Clicked "Change Icon..." and then "Browse", navigated to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)", and chose the Bridge.exe file to use as my new icon
6) Clicked OK to save the shortcut
7) Then I ran the shortcut and was prompted for the password I setup in step 1, which I entered, then hit "Enter" (it should save this from now on, due to the /savecred option we used in step 4)
Like that, my Bridge was back to performing like it did in CS5! As long as I used the new shortcut I created, my Bridge continued to work well. Using the "old" shortcuts wouldn't break anything, but Bridge would run very slowly.
Some things to note:
1) You will have to resetup ALL of your preferences/keywords panel/favorites/windows/etc for this "local" Bridge - none of your actual image files should be affected, though
2) In order to access network drives through this "local" Bridge, you will need to use "Switch User" to login as the user you created in step 1, map the network drives while logged in as that user, and then logout (and this may add the same slowness back to Bridge!)
3) Performing actions on network drives with the "local" Bridge may actually be slower using this method, which is why we now use the "local" Bridge only for local work and the original Bridge for working on a network drive
4) May make your systems administrator mad if they don't want you setting up new users..
5) Plugins/Scripts may need to be edited to work with the "local" Bridge
Here's some background on my computer:
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
16 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M 4GB
i7 4900MQ @ 2.80GHz
128GB SSD
I hope this helps other people as much as it has helped us!!

Never should have been a question - sorry.

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    Never should have been a question - sorry.

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