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Faronics System Profiler Standard User Guide
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Last modified: May, 2009
© 1999 - 2009 Faronics Corporation. All rights reserved. Faronics, Deep Freeze, Faronics Core Console,
Faronics Anti-Executable, Faronics Device Filter, Faronics Power Save, Faronics Insight, Faronics System
Profiler, and WINSelect are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Faronics Corporation. All other
company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Faronics System Profiler Standard User Guide
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Important Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
About Faronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Product Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Faronics System Profiler Standard Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Running Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Running Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Accessing Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Using Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Faronics System Profiler Standard Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Summary Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Faronics Software Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Machine Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Operating System Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Hardware Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Running Programs Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installed Applications Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Opening an Existing Faronics System Profiler Standard Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saving a Faronics System Profiler Standard Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Sending a Faronics System Profiler Standard Report to Faronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Closing Faronics System Profiler Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Faronics System Profiler Standard User Guide
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Faronics System Profiler Standard User Guide
Topics
Preface
This user guide explains how to run and use Faronics System Profiler Standard.
Important Information
Technical Support
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Important Information
About Faronics
Product Documentation
This section contains important information about your Faronics Product.
Faronics delivers market-leading solutions that help manage, simplify, and secure complex IT
environments. Our products ensure 100% machine availability, and have dramatically impacted
the day-to-day lives of thousands of information technology professionals. Fueled by a
market-centric focus, Faronics’ technology innovations benefit educational institutions, health
care facilities, libraries, government organizations, and corporations.
The following documents form the Faronics System Profiler Standard documentation set:
• Faronics System Profiler Standard User Guide — This document guides you how to use the
product.
• Faronics System Profiler Standard Release Notes — This document lists the new features,
known issues, and closed issues.
• Faronics System Profiler Standard readme.txt
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Technical Support
Every effort has been made to design this software for ease of use and to be problem free. If
problems are encountered, contact Technical Support
Technical Support: www.faronics.com/library
Web: www.faronics.com
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Introduction
Faronics System Profiler Standard is a utility that generates a detailed inventory of a
workstation’s configuration and properties.
Faronics System Profiler Standard Overview
System Requirements
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Faronics System Profiler Standard Overview
About Faronics System Profiler Standard
Faronics System Profiler Standard provides both a summary and detailed report of the following
components of a system:
• Summary — a complete snapshot of the system in brief.
•Faronics Software
—Name of Faronics Software
—Version
— Install directory
— Driver name
— Driver status
— Product-specific information
•Machine
•Operating System
• Hardware
— Desktop Monitor
—Physical Drives
— Logical Drives
—Physical Memory
—Cache
—CPU
—BIOS
—Motherboard
— Network Connection
• Running Programs
• Installed Applications
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