Released: Profile Relocator v0.99, Wake On LAN Ex v2.07
BootBlock | 21 January, 2010
We have new releases! Rejoice, and such.
The first one is Profile Relocator. This allows all newly-created Windows profiles to be created in a user-specified location. This is great if you’re not a nutter and want all of your profile data (including application data, desktop, favourites, etc) in a safe place in case you want to re-install Windows (not really required any more since Vista) or it somehow gets wanked and jizzes over everything.
The second is Wake On LAN Ex 2. Added some feature requests and squashed an exception on start-up.
Finally, the original Wake On LAN Ex was seemingly not providing the latest v0.96 release, but instead v0.95. No idea what the hell happened there, but it’s sorted now. You should be using WoLEX2 anyway.
But you’d know all this if you were following my lame Twitter crap.
Thank you, and good night.
Well,Bootblock, I followed your instructions to the best of my abilities, using Profile Relocator immediately after a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, and each time it informed me that the process ahd failed during “writing to the registry.” It did this whether or not I chose to copy the Public and Default profiles or not. If it had worked, I was prepared to throw something of an enormous parade in your honor, seal off the streeet this evening and have a raucous block party, ask my Congressman to sponsor legislation declaring February 20th a national holiday here the US, and most significantly to you, I imagine, say thanks with a generous PayPal donation. I so need this to work. I have seen various strategies that tinker with the registry, others that use junction points, some that seem to involve drugging the Operating System’s cocktail and then blindfolding it so it wakes up on the D drive long enough to create a User profile, then knocking it out again, and speeding it back home or something. I don’t know. I’m not a technical person. But I run web usability and customer experience testing off of several laptop computer that use Techsmith Morae software to capture lossless video of users, mousetracks and clicks, page views, keystrokes, as well as eyetracking. Each laptop is equipped with two 400 GB hard drives in RAID 1 so we’re covered against drive failure but I need to get user settings and app data off the flippin’ C drive in case the OS corrupts. Any idea why Profile Relocator won’t work for me?
Wow, now that is a comment!
Hi Eric,
as it’s failing during the (last) registry writing step, I’m going to guess that it’s down to permissions. Either it’s because PR isn’t running with admin privileges, or UAC is preventing it from writing to the registry.
Could you try running PR with admin privs? Right-click on the program and select Run as administrator and see if that fixes it.
If not, you could try temporarily disabling UAC (Control Panel – Change User Account Control Settings; set the slider to the bottom-most position of Never; OK it, and then restart Windows), running PR as admin as specified above (just to be sure), and seeing if that works.
If it does, then I’ll need to see if I can get PR to do its thang without this messing about.
Don’t forget to enable UAC again!
Hi there, I had the same problem with Win7 Ultimate, and running as administrator did the trick nicely. Thanks for a great piece of (really necessary) software!
Justin
Hi , Bootblock!Your software is great!I would like to make a suggestion or as a feature request for Wake On LAN Ex 2 to add possibility to specify the broadcast address for specific computer.Because I’m using it in very complex network envoronment with a lot of vlans and network segments i can use it only on my local network segment.Indeed it’s a great tool.Thanx.
Hi, Joseph.
I´m a user of your WakeOnLand soft an it’s great.
Thank you for your developing.
Now I need to know where the address book is stored, I have to reinstall in other machine and I can’t find where it is.
Thanks again.
Hi Oscar,
take a look in the About window. There will be a link called “Open Data Directory” that you can click which’ll open the settings directory for you.
Hi po2v,
I’ll add broadcast address support in for the next version, although I can’t quite remember the method I used for implementing sockets, so I’m not entirely sure if .NET will allow me this much control.