Overview

Redirect-IT® is a one-of-a-kind, sophisticated registry and file system redirection engine designed to eliminate common multi-user conflicts arising from software design limitations and lazy programming techniques. Contrary to best practice recommendations, many programs are ineptly designed to store user configuration settings, personal preferences, and other data in a shared location such as the machine registry (HKLM) or a common file or folder. On a single-user workstation, this does not constitute a problem. However in a multi-user shared environment such as Terminal Server, this limitation inevitably results in access conflicts, data corruption, and loss of personal settings.

Unfortunately, these limitations cannot be mitigated by means of application compatibility scripts or other traditional workarounds. One potential solution to this problem would be to modify the application's code, which could be costly, time-consuming, and often times an implausible option. Another possibility would be to leverage one of many available software virtualization technologies on the market today. But this, too, could be very expensive, let alone an overkill proposition.

Redirect-IT® offers an effective solution that obviates the need for drastic corrective measures involving application code rewrites, virtualization, or even Citrix AIE (Application Isolation Environment). By intercepting and redirecting common registry and file operations, Redirect-IT® seamlessly creates a private instance of select HKLM sub-keys and common files in the user's registry (HKCU) and home folder (or AppData folder), respectively.

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