Bad Information in Control Panel
I’m having some problems with my PPC-6700 not being recognized as connected to my computer so I can sync it with my data via ActiveSync.
I just went to uninstall ActiveSync and do some other brute force attempts at reconciling this problem and noticed that Windows doesn’t think I use ActiveSync very often. In fact only “rarely”. I also find it odd that it says it was last used on 09/10/2007. I’ve been using it everyday with probably no break at all.
Where does Microsoft pull this used date information from? Is there something that needs to be updated or modified for it to be accurate?
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1 opinion for Bad Information in Control Panel
Brian Layman
Nov 23, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Yeah, that never did work right… but all that data is stored in a rot13 encrypted part of your registry usually at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist
XP allowed you to move it to a different location but I don’t think vista does. Or at least it does it some other way.
You can tell XP (v?) to turn off the encryption by putting this under the user assist key or any of the branches:
“NoEncrypt”=dword:00000001
So go on out to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count
and copy one of the values and past it into http://rot13.thecodecave.com/ to see how Windows tracks all of the programs.
Ever wonder how the FBI can tell what sites you’ve been to even though you cleared your browser cache? well if you ever typed in the site name from the start->run, it is in here. Just look for things that start with “uggc://jjj.”
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