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Windows OS provides GUI to enable or disable offline files feature. For those who want to disable offline files from a batch script, below is a tip how to do this. Windows XP/Server 2003 In Windows XP offline files can be disabled from command line using the below command. csccmd.exe /disable Csccmd.exe 1.0 version can … Read more

Windows OS provides GUI to enable or disable offline files feature. For those who want to enable offline files from a batch script, below is a tip how to do this. Windows XP/Server 2003 In Windows XP offline files can be enabled from command line using the below command. csccmd.exe /enable To know where to … Read more

Csccmd.exe tool version 1.1 is not released to the public and can only be obtained by contacting Microsoft product support services. See //support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884739 for more information on this. This tool is also available at the below location. //www.jacksontechnical.com/pubfiles/csccmd_v1.1.zip However CSCCMD 1.0 was released to public as part of windows server 2003 resource kit tools. It can … Read more

If you are not seeing ‘Manage offline files‘ window in Windows 7 Home edition it’s because of the fact that Windows 7 does not support offline files feature. Offline files feature is supported in only the following Windows 7 editions. Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Professional. The following Windows 7 editions does … Read more

Offline files feature allows to access network shares even in offline mode i.e even if the machine is not connected to the network. To use this feature first thing we need to do is enabling offline files feature. This can be done as explained in the post How to enable offline files in Vista. and How to … Read more

When we try to mark a large sized network folder for offline availability Offline files/CSC may give an error saying “Incorrect functioin: Unable to make available offline“.  This happens intermittently and the problem may disappear when we try to offline the share again. Microsoft confirmed that it is a bug in offline files and also … Read more

Client Side Cache or CSC is just another term for the Offline Files feature in Windows operating systems. It’s most widely known as offline files only. But the cache location is named CSC. And this can be located in C:WindowsCSC. We can disable Client Side Cache using the in-build graphical user interface(GUI) or through registry … Read more

In Windows XP we can disable offline files/Client side cache in the following way. (Initial steps are pretty much the same as Enabling offline files) Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools from the menu bar. Now select Folder options and then click on Offline Files tab in the Folder options window Now … Read more

Offline Files has got its own user interface to disable the feature. But in case if you want to do it by hacking the registry or through a batch script, this article shows how you can do that. Since Offline files has changed a lot in Vista and Windows 7 when compared with XP, find … Read more