Often, I find myself making new contacts, and throughout the discussion, we might be deciding to exchange music, attempting to listen to new genre of tunes and potentially discover something that I like. However it gets quite troublesome when the other party goes like “Hey tell me what you have in your music folder?” and I scratched my head, because it is near 80GB big, plus it’s no where near organized.

What I did is run a small batch file, which will generate a file containing the entire folder’s worth of music that I can send over to anyone so they can pick any files they want. To do this, it’s very simple. (more…)

In my previous guide - How To: Synchronize Your Folders with SyncToy 2.0! (Part 1), I have detailed on how to use Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 to set up folder pairs that you want to backup/copy/synchronize. In this second part, I will guide you on how to schedule this task to be run automatically.

Note: This guide is written in Windows Vista. If you are using Windows XP, the guide will be similar in certain ways, but there might be a slight difference in configuring the scheduler

A Quick Recap

From the previous guide, we have set up a folder pair that we’d like to synchronize. Our last setup is as follows:

Basically, we have set up one folder pair and set it to be copied over to a network location for backup purpose. (more…)