Alternatives to redirecting folders for Start Menu

[monkey_boy]

Hi all,

I'm after advise yet again. We currently use folder redirection to make sure students have the correct start menu and desktop on each machine. obviously this means that all the software is installed in the same place on each machine etc. The problem is that recently we have noticed that the laptops tend to lag a fair bit when you use the start menu for the first time in each session. What other ways are there to get the same results. We are running server 2000, but are upgrading to 2003 in the summer. We don't use any network management software. Roaming profiles (in the traditional NT sense) we found to take an unacceptable length of time to log on.

Thanks for all the help

[Geoff]

Mandatory profiles?

[limbo]

You could produce a script that copies the start menu from the folder to somehwere local on the machine and redirect the folders to there.

This means that when you open the start menu you do not have to trot off to the server (and laptops suggest wireless network is in play here!) to get the information.

It means more traffic when you are copying it down, but depending on how often you had to do this it would probably be less traffic overall.