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thejamie - 13 Jul 2008 14:33 GMT

My rant - profiles slow things up when you connect VIA VPN. I use Source
Safe religiously and don't want the profile - it gets in the way - ho hum,
waiting for the server to synchronize... hmmm, just ate lunch, getting
sleepy, still waiting..., ho hum <snore>.

I adjusted the registry items and the Visual Studio 2005 folder to the
C:\VS8 folder that I created in my root and the program opens up quickly.

How do I keep the VS 2005 from recreating that foolish folder in MY
Documents every time I open the program? (yep, I understand that the net
admin has to be paranoid about what is done on my machine... which came
first, the Shadow Syncronization or the Source Safe for Visual Studio, AHEM!)

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Jamie

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thejamie - 13 Jul 2008 14:36 GMT

Sorry guys, this posted to the wrong forum. Just ignore it.

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> My rant - profiles slow things up when you connect VIA VPN. I use Source
> Safe religiously and don't want the profile - it gets in the way - ho hum,
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> admin has to be paranoid about what is done on my machine... which came
> first, the Shadow Syncronization or the Source Safe for Visual Studio, AHEM!)

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Jamie - 13 Jul 2008 15:19 GMT

Someone else agrees:

http://www.isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html

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thejamie - 13 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT

Look at why the author chose this path. He wanted the user to start off with
a good profile... a useful profile. Now it seems this has become an admin
tool to monitor everything the company should monitor (useful, but not when
it slows down productivity).

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Jamie

> Someone else agrees:
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> > admin has to be paranoid about what is done on my machine... which came
> > first, the Shadow Syncronization or the Source Safe for Visual Studio, AHEM!)

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thejamie - 13 Jul 2008 15:46 GMT

OK, as it so happens it isn't totally the wrong forum since VS2005 is also
the BI for SQL Server Management so with this in mind, I did find how to
change this:

In the registry folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\User Shell Folders

you will find an entry called "Personal" which will point to "C:\Documents
and Settings\My Documents"

If you copy "My Documents" to your root drive (C:\), and change this one
line, everything else will default to C:\My Documents instead of
"C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents" As to whether is will prevent
Server 2003 from issuing its shadow over that folder, I can't say just yet,
but it does appear to have improved my ability to open and close Visual
Studio quickly for the time being.

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thejamie - 13 Jul 2008 16:36 GMT

When you finish, don't forget to run your import and export settings wizard
(Tools menu)

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> OK, as it so happens it isn't totally the wrong forum since VS2005 is also
> the BI for SQL Server Management so with this in mind, I did find how to
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> > admin has to be paranoid about what is done on my machine... which came
> > first, the Shadow Syncronization or the Source Safe for Visual Studio, AHEM!)

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Jamie - 16 Jul 2008 11:10 GMT

That doesn't work. The SBS 2003 flips the registry entry back to the server
user file. Then it dumps your file.

> When you finish, don't forget to run your import and export settings wizard
> (Tools menu)
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> > > admin has to be paranoid about what is done on my machine... which came
> > > first, the Shadow Syncronization or the Source Safe for Visual Studio, AHEM!)

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