Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

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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?
 
> 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?
 
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...
 
click desktop, press F1, enter "Offline Files" into search box, and
investigate from there.
 
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".
 
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