JSI Tip 5277. How do I remove wasted space in user profiles by using Windows 2000 Terminal Services?

The Cprofile command removes wasted space from user profiles, and if user-specific file associations are turned off, it also removes file associations from the user's profile.

When you open a CMD prompt and type cprofile /?, you receive:

Cleans the specified profiles of wasted space and removes user-specific fileassociations from the registry when disabled.CPROFILE [/L] [/I] [/V] filelistThis tool will not modify profiles that are currently in use.  /L  Clean all local profiles (filelist need not be specified).  /I  Interactively prompt the user with each profile.  /V  Provide verbose output.

When using filelist to add additional profiles, separate each profile with a space, as in:

"c:documents and settingstuser.dat" "c:documents and settingstuser.dat"                    OR"\C$Documents and Settingstuser.dat" "\C$Documents and Settingstuser.dat"

Since cprofile will not modify profiles that are in use, you could schedule the command to run during off hours. Make sure you DO NOT use the /I switch when scheduling the cprofile command.