Enbraining

Enbraining is a niche open-source publisher whose single public offering, NCP Nuke, addresses the very specific problem of purging dormant NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) bindings from legacy Windows installations. Originally written to clean up after Novell NetWare clients that leave behind stubborn registry entries and orphaned DLLs, the utility has found a second life among IT departments that still maintain mixed-era networks or migrate aging workstations to modern domains. Running as a tiny, portable console application, NCP Nuke scans the local system for residual IPX/SPX stack references, deprecated NIC bindings, and leftover NCP redirector keys, then presents a detailed log before optionally removing the artifacts. Typical use cases include prepping retired PCs for donation, resolving ghost NIC conflicts that stall OS imaging tools, and eliminating driver collisions prior to virtual-machine P2V conversions. Because the tool touches only NetWare-related crumbs, it is frequently added to MDT/SCCM task sequences that refresh hardware fleets originally deployed with ZENworks. Enbraining keeps the codebase on GitHub under a permissive MIT license, allowing administrators to audit or fork it for custom audit scripts. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and supporting batch installation alongside other utilities.