remove remembered offline folders from old user

[jcneil1]

I have a laptop (WinXP Pro) that is a member of a domain. The previous user had thier home drive available offline.
Now I have a new employee using the laptop (using a different profile) and I can't remove the 'remembered' offline folder of the previous user. Everytime I initiate a syncronize, in addition to the new users home drive it trys to sync the old offline folder too.

I have tried the following:

1) Removed the old users profile off the pc using the delete profile tool
2) Went to start/programs/accessories/syncronize and unchecked the unwanted folder on the main screen and in the 'settings' screen
3) Deleted the key containing the old folder under HCU/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/NETCACHE/SHARES

Everytime I reboot the reg key of #3 re-appears. Can anyone help me? A beer in it for you if you can!


Thanks in advance

 

[minxca]

Hi,

Usually this is what I do when I give a laptop or pc to someone else:
1. logon as old user
2. Delete the both offline files (temporary and always available)
3. Uncheck the offline file, reboot.
4. logon as new user and configure offline file

 

[lwolfson]

Dang, has no one worked around reformatting the HD on this one? We just changed IP of the file server and no way to delete it from trying to sync! I hate to dissolve offline files and re-sync as users have over 5G! Bummer is I know now to force all changes, have everyone turn off sync, then move server resync to it.

Now I think the secret is to call all drives by hostname and write a script to just edit everyone's host file as necessary. Everyone in the enterprise maps to \\fileserver4me\%username%$ and you just have to tweak the host file for the address of the local file server for their region.

 

[minxca]

Hi lwolfson,

Hold your left shift button when you press delete. It'll clear the cache.