Profile

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Updated: January 21, 2005

Cleans specified profiles of wasted space and, if user-specific file associations are disabled, removes these associations from the registry. Profiles that are currently in use are not modified.

Syntax

cprofile [/l] [/i] [/v] [FileList]

cprofile [/i] [/v] FileList

Parameters

Cleans all local profiles. You can also specify a list of additional profiles in the FileList parameter.

Interactively prompts the user with each profile.

Displays information about the actions being performed.

FileList

A list of files from which you want to remove user-specific file associations. Separate each file in the list with a space. File names can contain wildcard characters.

Displays help at the command prompt.

Caution

Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.

Remarks

Only administrators can run cprofile.
A terminal server uses file associations to determine which application to use to access files of various types. File types are registered using Windows Explorer.
Per-user file associations allow each user to have a different application associated with a specific file type. For example, one user could have .doc files associated with Microsoft Word and another user could have .doc files associated with Windows WordPad.
If user-specific file associations are enabled, cprofile only removes the unused space from the user profile. If user-specific file associations are disabled, cprofile also removes the corresponding registry entries.

Examples

To clean all local profiles without being prompted about each one, type:

cprofile /l

To clean local profiles and be prompted about each one, type:

cprofile /l /i

Formatting legend

Format	Meaning
Italic	Information that the user must supply
Bold	Elements that the user must type exactly as shown
Ellipsis (...)	Parameter that can be repeated several times in a command line
Between brackets ([])	Optional items
Between braces ({}); choices separated by pipe (\|). Example: {even\|odd}	Set of choices from which the user must choose only one
Courier font	Code or program output

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