Personal registry key – Redirect My documents folder

We can redirect My documents location to some other folder by editing the registry key Personal under the following node in registry database. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders The default value of the above registry key would be %userprofile%My Documents. In Windows XP, it is by default located in C:Documents and SettingsLoginudMy Documents. In Windows Vista and … Read more

How to lock the screen in Windows

On Windows machines you can lock the user login sessions while you are away from the computer. This allows users to protect their accounts on the systems which is physically accessible to others. For example on a Windows XP professional machine, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del and then select the option Lock Desktop. Your session will … Read more

Offline files synchronization

As mentioned in previous posts, when we mark a network share for offline availability, Offline Files copies the whole share to the local CSC folder. From that moment onwards Offline Files has to take care of the synchronization of the local copies with the network share, so that whenever we disconnect the machine from the … Read more