Shell Folder handling in a RES PowerFuse session
Introduction
The way in which users’s Desktop, Start menu and Quick Launch folders are handled has been redesigned in RES PowerFuse 2008 SR5.

Users’ Desktop, Start menu and Quick Launch folders require careful handling by RES PowerFuse in sessions using the Windows shell. RES PowerFuse must take into account that these folders can contain items that were created prior to the RES PowerFuse session, and which should not be made visible in the RES PowerFuse session.

Before SR5, RES PowerFuse copied such items to special folders when the session started, and when the session logged off this action was reversed. However, this method had some drawbacks.

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Someone showed me this neat little trick a while ago (can't remember who though. Sorry.) and I needed it today. I wanted to walk through the registry of a specific terminal server user. So I logged onto that terminal server too (using my own credentials) and opened up regedit... And then it hit me (again). I need to know the SID of the user to open his part of the registry.


To prevent having to get a SID ever again I implemented the earlier mentioned trick. I launched the RES PowerFuse console, went to Powerlaunch; User Registry and added a new String Value directly under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I named the String "Username" and entered "%username%" ... READ MORE>>