Why is my system "syncronizing" ?

[+Bob+]

New XP Pro build, SP3.

When I shut down this system, it pops up a window "synchronizing
favorites with R: drive". It takes it a minute or so to finish.

My favorites are actually stored on the R: drive (registry hack).
However, they are not on the local system, so I can't see that there
is anything to synchronize. My other XP/2000 systems have the same
config and they don't do it. In addition, I haven't intentionally
turned synchronization on, and in fact I'm fairly sure it's disabled
in HKLM/Run where it was starting up (although I know I've seen it put
itself back in there occasionally).

How can I shut this synchronization process off?

 

[Twayne]

New XP Pro build, SP3.

When I shut down this system, it pops up a window "synchronizing
favorites with R: drive". It takes it a minute or so to finish.

My favorites are actually stored on the R: drive (registry hack).
However, they are not on the local system, so I can't see that there
is anything to synchronize. My other XP/2000 systems have the same
config and they don't do it. In addition, I haven't intentionally
turned synchronization on, and in fact

... I'm fairly sure it's disabled

Famous last words.

 

[+Bob+]

Famous last words.

Checked again. It is still shut off in startup. I don't see a service
running that looks like it (if there's a specific name to look for, I
could use that).

Still doing the sync thing...

 

[+Bob+]

click desktop, press F1, enter "Offline Files" into search box, and
investigate from there.

Thanks. I managed to disable the item it decided I need synced!

Do you happen to know what service runs this sync program? mobsync is
not starting on my machine and I don't see anything in services that
looks like "synchronization".