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Services Utility: Distributed Link Tracking Client Service | Display Name (?): | Distributed Link Tracking Client | | Short Name (?): | TrkWks | | Executable (?): | svchost.exe | | Library (?): | trkwks.dll | | Depends On (?): | Remote Procedure Call (RPC) | | Supports (?): | None. | | Description (?): | Maintains links between NTFS files within a computer or across computers in a network domain. | | OS (?): | 2000 Professional, XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, 2000 Server, Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Automatic | Disabled | Automatic | Automatic | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | |
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The distributed link tracking client service is used to store information about files moving between volumes on a domain. This service requires both volumes to be on NTFS version 5 (Windows 2000 and above). This service is only needed on a server or a workstation in a domain controlled environment and the average user can and should disable it, or at least set it to manual.
The service itself is useful for active directory. It is used in tracking shell shortcuts and OLE application links. The objects themselves are stored and transferred to the distributed link tracking server service on a domain controller so that it can maintain up-to-date links. Even on a domain problems can occur with restoring files so that double GUIDs exist and if the database becomes too large. |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair. And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost: Road Not Taken (1962) |
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