Instead of a simple, well documented XP shortcut: %SystemRoot%\system32\mobsync.exe /logoff But good luck trying to find documentation on that. One way around it is to schedule synchronization every 5 minutes of so. Everyone has to go through hours of frustration and data loss, before realizing that some measures have to be taken to prevent this. And that is NOT written in huge letters anywhere. In Windows 7 however, even if you are online, you are technically OFFLINE. Until you connected again that is, and synchronization is automatic and seamless. Only if you loose connection, you switched to a offline mode, and all your edits are local. All your files are updated immediately on the network. In XP, if you are online, you ARE ONLINE. Am I doing something wrong? Something is wrong with my network? But at some point you begin to wonder,was it me? And sure enough: “This is not a bug, this is a feature”. Every time I would open my files downstairs, they are a week-old stuff. Why make it so simple that it is not usable anymore? Story of Offline File SynchronizationĪt first I was blaming myself. But,first, I hate to install anything on my clean machines, and second, it just work in older XP. For professional results use a professional tool. Where is a complete list of all search modified available? Where are useful real-life examples of searches? Every little piece of information is a painful browsing through dozens of questions and answers on social networks. All you can get is click once, click twice and lots of smiley faces. You can use third party search tools and do it. You can use Visual Web Developer and do it. You can go to a parallel install of XP and do it. Of course, you can use other search tools to accomplish the task, but search is such a fundamental part of operating system that one begins to question the whole system. Assumption was that user do not know what they want, they type punctuation symbols in their searches, and we need to help them to eliminate such nonsense. Why? – Because search ignores punctuation marks.Įven if you try to search for “Trip.doc”, you will get every document with “trip” and with “doc” in it. You need to find all instances, where document Trip.doc is mentioned. Say you have a large collection of files and documents. By catering to the “dumbest”, Win7 designers alienated the Pro(s). There are however some areas where the “dumb factor” prevailed completely, and there is now way to outsmart it. But in most cases there is a way to fine tune the system, and make it sharp, and strong, and fit for the needs of hawks. And funny characters are trying to make your experience slower. And “Are you sure(s)?” are all over the place. Windows 7 target audience was a humblest users there are. I will add problems and possible solutions to this article, but for now let me to tell you just 2 stories of Windows Search and Offline File Synchronization.
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