Windows XP Services - Distributed Link Tracking Client Service
Microsoft Description:
Maintains links between NTFS files within a computer or across computers in a network domain.
Startup type: Automatic
Service status: Started
This service depends on the following system components:Remote Procedure CallImportance of Distributed Link Tracking Client Service
Microsoft Description:
Maintains links between NTFS files within a computer or across computers in a network domain.
- Maintains links between the NTFS file system files within a computer or across computers in a network domain. The DLT Client service ensures that shortcuts and OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) links continue to work after the target file is renamed or moved. When a shortcut to a file on an NTFS v5 volume is created, distributed link tracking stamps a unique object identifier (ID) into the target file, known as the link source. Information about the object ID is also stored within the referring file, known as the link client.
- Distributed link tracking also attempts to maintain links even when they do not occur within a domain, such as cross-domain, within a workgroup, or on a single computer that is not connected to a network. Links can always be maintained in these scenarios when a link source is moved within a computer, or when the network shared folder on the link source computer is changed. Typically, links can be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, though this form of tracking is less reliable over time.
- Send notification of files moving between NTFS volumes in a network domain.
Startup type: Automatic
Service status: Started
This service depends on the following system components:Remote Procedure CallImportance of Distributed Link Tracking Client Service
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