Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

[Guest +Bob+]

New XP Pro build, SP3.

 

When I shut down this system, it pops up a window "synchronizing

favorites with R: drive". It takes it a minute or so to finish.

 

My favorites are actually stored on the R: drive (registry hack).

However, they are not on the local system, so I can't see that there

is anything to synchronize. My other XP/2000 systems have the same

config and they don't do it. In addition, I haven't intentionally

turned synchronization on, and in fact I'm fairly sure it's disabled

in HKLM/Run where it was starting up (although I know I've seen it put

itself back in there occasionally).

 

How can I shut this synchronization process off?

[Guest Twayne]

Re: Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

 

> New XP Pro build, SP3.

>

> When I shut down this system, it pops up a window "synchronizing

> favorites with R: drive". It takes it a minute or so to finish.

>

> My favorites are actually stored on the R: drive (registry hack).

> However, they are not on the local system, so I can't see that there

> is anything to synchronize. My other XP/2000 systems have the same

> config and they don't do it. In addition, I haven't intentionally

> turned synchronization on, and in fact

> ... I'm fairly sure it's disabled

 

Famous last words.

> in HKLM/Run where it was starting up (although I know I've seen it put

> itself back in there occasionally).

>

> How can I shut this synchronization process off?

[Guest +Bob+]

Re: Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

 

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:24:49 -0400, "Twayne"

<nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

>> New XP Pro build, SP3.

>>

>> When I shut down this system, it pops up a window "synchronizing

>> favorites with R: drive". It takes it a minute or so to finish.

>>

>> My favorites are actually stored on the R: drive (registry hack).

>> However, they are not on the local system, so I can't see that there

>> is anything to synchronize. My other XP/2000 systems have the same

>> config and they don't do it. In addition, I haven't intentionally

>> turned synchronization on, and in fact

>

>> ... I'm fairly sure it's disabled

>

>Famous last words.

 

Checked again. It is still shut off in startup. I don't see a service

running that looks like it (if there's a specific name to look for, I

could use that).

 

Still doing the sync thing...

[Guest frodo@theshire.net]

Re: Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

 

click desktop, press F1, enter "Offline Files" into search box, and

investigate from there.

[Guest +Bob+]

Re: Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

 

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:17:15 -0500, frodo@theshire.net wrote:

>click desktop, press F1, enter "Offline Files" into search box, and

>investigate from there.

 

Thanks. I managed to disable the item it decided I need synced!

 

Do you happen to know what service runs this sync program? mobsync is

not starting on my machine and I don't see anything in services that

looks like "synchronization".