FolderShare is Going Away

At some point in December, Microsoft’s FolderShare is going away. I used to use this a lot until they dropped Windows 2000 support. Now, instead of FolderShare, we’ll have Windows Live Sync instead (see details)

In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It’s

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Antivirus And Backup Changes

I’ve spent the evening uninstalling Windows Live OneCare from three of our home machines. I bought it on a whim last year when I was able to get an introductory offer — 3 machines for $19. Renewal time is coming up but now at the real price of $49. Still not a bad price for

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Syncing Folders and FolderShare

I had an interesting challenge at work this week. I think I have a rather simple solution (below), but am still open to ideas –I’m always willing to admit that I haven’t seen every clever tool out there yet!

The Setup

We have several large document libraries stored on file servers. Each is a collection

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Remember PowerToys?

Every 6 months or so, I “re-discover” the Windows XP PowerToys all over again.  There’s some great stuff here if you’re still running XP (as I am).

Of them all, there’s really only one that I consider essential:  That’s the ClearType tuner.  On my LCD displays (laptop and desktop) I find it indespensible:

This PowerToy lets you

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TrueCrypt & SyncToy & Mozy – Almost a Great Idea

Recently, the Security Now podcast took a question about security and online backups. Steve Gibson had some thoughts:

[...] TrueCrypt would be a perfect solution. You configure TrueCrypt in that mode where it uses a file as its container, and then you mount that as a drive. You see a drive from your perspective. On

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