Profile Nurse

Description

Profile Nurse is a powerful tool for windows profile maintenance. It offers virtually every possible registry and file system operation to perform on an arbitrary set of profiles. The automatic processing on these profiles combined with configurable and save/restorable action sequences takes a lot of work from administrators and can help in single or recurring tasks.

User opinions:
Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Pty Ltd about Profile Nurse:
‘Have a look at this new free tool called Profile Nurse from Sepago. It’s a little bit of a task to use but I’m sure it will have a place in all our profile woes.’

Urs Odermatt in his Profile Nurse Comment:
‘Wow, this tool is really powerful. Finally it’s possible to remove stale files and registry entries from user profiles. This is a functionality you should include in UPM!’

History

Version 1.0.0.0154

  • Added check for registry user hives that are named after the user/profile directory
  • Added possibility to specify the <PROFILE_DIR> variable in value data when creating and modifying registry values
  • Fixed bug, where paths could not be created in the root directory of a drive
  • Fixed bug, where the first file of a directory was not copied, if the target directory existed
  • Fixed bug, where registry keys were created in the wrong location of the user hive

Version 1.0.0.0151

  • Added support for copying from user profile to outside location for copying of directories and files
  • Added support for variable in absolute paths when copying files or directories
  • Fixed bug in CopyDir where target directory was not deleted when it existed
  • Fixed bug in CopyDir and CopyFile where directory structure was not created, if it didn’t exist

Version 1.0.0.149 (May 15, 2009)

  • Removed file system query bug, where no recursion is done, if the whole profile is queried
  • Added exclusion option to directory and file deletion
  • Added standard output, if -v is not specified
  • Added output of log file and query result location
  • Added file sizes and total query result sizes to file system query output
  • Fixed issue with erroneous wildcard matching of strings, when search string starts with wildcards

Version 1.0.0.143 (March 12, 2009):

  • Fixed issue with deletion of registry keys, where a single key could not be deleted when specified without wildcards
  • Fixed issue, where copying a directory failed after creating a backup

Version 1.0.0.134 (December 17, 2008): Initial release (including creation and deletion of registry keys and values, modification of registry value data, queries of keys and values, file and directory copying, renaming and deletion and queries)

Download

Download the current version of Profile Nurse here.


New features for Profile Nurse

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Published by Holger Adam on February 8, 2010. 0 Comments
Categories: ProfileNurse

It has been a while since the last update and in the meantime some new features were added to my repertoire as well as some bug fixes. So here I am with some new tricks up my sleeve. What has changed?

Continue reading ‘New features for Profile Nurse’

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Profile Nurse – Better by popular demand

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Published by Holger Adam on May 15, 2009. 0 Comments
Categories: ProfileNurse

I’ve offered my services to administrators and IT professionals for some months now. Among the positive feedback were some comments that reported minor bugs or proposed additional features. Since my help with profile maintenance was very well accepted, my creators decided to add a user requested feature besides fixing the known issues.

So here I am in a new version with the ability to exclude files and folders in deletion operations. Other changes include additional command line output and file system query result improvements.

Feel free to download my newest version and tell us what you like and what is missing.

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Profile Nurse – Minor bug fixes and requests for new features

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Published by Holger Adam on March 12, 2009. 7 Comments
Categories: ProfileNurse

After the initial release of Profile Nurse in december 2008 we’ve received a lot of positive feedback. We’ve been able to fix some minor bugs that occurred and relase the new version with this article. Details of the fixed issues and the available download are listed in History and Download. Continue reading ‘Profile Nurse – Minor bug fixes and requests for new features’

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ProfileNurse – Profile maintenance made easy

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Published by Holger Adam on December 17, 2008. 5 Comments
Categories: ProfileNurse

User profiles contain a lot of data and information that is more or less important to the owner of the profile. Applications leave their marks in the file system and the registry to save user specific settings. As a consequence, a profile may grow larger and larger over time. While the work environment (applications, settings, needed files, etc.) changes around the user, some data becomes obsolete and unnecessarily bloats the profile.

This may not be problematic on single computers with only few users and local profiles, but it becomes a major headache in enterprise networks, where profiles typically are not bound to single machines, but roam with the user instead. Continue reading ‘ProfileNurse – Profile maintenance made easy’

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