David Sidwell wanted to know where his files were on his home Windows system when he was away. He could have used a remote access tool and click-click-clicked his way through, but he instead combined two uber-useful tools in a clever way.
Sidwell, a reader of Lifehacker's Australian counterpart, installed Dropbox on the systems he uses, along with previously mentioned file indexing tool Locate32. By setting Locate32 to drop its index file in a spot backed up by Dropbox, and changing a few settings, Sidwell now knows where his files are kept at all times, and can quickly get to them with remote access tools.
Locate32 and Dropbox – offline indexes of remote PCs [SiC via Lifehacker AU]