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Wow, what a price. I though MSI just did motherboards.

Tell me about it I have beta 1 installed and it won't let me install beta 2 until I uninstall the first one. It fails to uninstall of course.

This is driving me nuts I don't want to copy the drivers across as I'm almost there. Deleting the unknown devices and rebooting sorts it all out. I'll try to find a way to automate that (In the old win98 days you could just delete the ENUM folder from the registry, but XP is a little fussy about that) Thanks for the tips though guys.

Cheers AJ. No, I add the network drivers in the normal fashion as I mentioned in my first post. The network cards are never one of the missing drivers. The computer has full access to the share too, so I don't think that's the problem. How would you script a deletion of existing drivers? I wouldn't even begin to know how to do that, if you could point me in the right direction, that would be great. Thanks.

Ok, it's about 182Mb at the moment including laptop drivers too, which is not too bad. But, this is sticking in my craw now, so it's going to bug me until I get a solution

I'm playing with RIS at the moment which is going fine, but I want just one image for all hardware. I know that I can copy the drivers to the local hard drive using $oem$\$1\drivers and reference it using the oemPnpDriversPath but because I want just one image, there would be a lot of wastage as I'd be copying across drivers that I don't need for a particular system - so I just copy the NIC drivers information, and add them to the i386 folder where necessary. I have made a drivers share on the server that I want the RIS build to connect to during the install. I've added a "cmdlines.txt" file to merge a regsitry entry which alters the "DevicePath" to include "\\servername\drivers$" along with %SystemRoot%\Inf. When Windows boots up after the RIS build, it has quite a few unknown devices. Checking the registry confirms that the DevicePath is correct, so if I delete all of the "Unknown Devices" in Device Manager and re-scan for devices it finds them all and installs the drivers. So, I need to know why Windows doesn't use those drivers during the build - or I need to know a command to tell windows to "Re-scan for drivers" or something. Can anyone help with this?

Ok, that explains the only result for 'Imperio' when you use search, couldn't quite figure out what GrumbleDook meant. I presume that all those posts were deleted then. I guess that will have coloured everyone's view of the company here - wonder if they were any good

I've been sent a link to a network monitoring software company called Imperio. Has anyone used their Lan Monitoring software before. It shows remote PC Screens and what any user has done on the network, including which files and folders they have opened and which websites they have accessed. The screenshots on their website don't look that great and I would image that that level of monitoring must put quite an overhead on the network. Any reports here?

Congrats guys. That's been amazingly fast, well done to all the bods working behind the scenes. Did you imagine the site would have been this much of a success?

Excellent, thanks for that Ric.

Cheers, Ric, I suspected as much. Which thread was that one?

When I've tackled the thorny issue of pupils getting access to their personal folders from home over the years, people always tell me that I need to use moodle. Well, I've bitten the bullet and built up a moodle box yesterday, it's on a server 2003 machine and has Apache, MySQL and PHP installed using the appropriately named EasyPHP. From first looks, moodle looks very similar to sharepoint, which is a bit of a bummer as that's of no use in allowing folder access, it merely allows you to upload certain documents to the webspace and then download them again at home - or vice/versa. Can someone talk me through what I need to do to allow access to their personal folders?

How do you listen to a podcast?

In the end I downloaded the reskit and made myself an MST removing the image writer. The install took about 30 secs. Should have done that originally

I've just exported the registry entry - HKCU\control panel\accessibility and going to merge that back in. It won't stop people from changing things if they want to, but at least at every log on the settings will be back to default.

It's not in the ADM I'm afraid http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sct/scthch04.mspx

Sorry, Geoff. I can't find that policy at all. When I import the adm, there is a whole new section of policies under "All Shared Computer Toolkit Restrictions" but not that. Any ideas?

Interesting: We may be deploying the toolkit next Summer just for that functionality alone.

It's a HP 4050, so pretty old, but I may be able to do it through their web interface. cheers

I'm doing that right now Chris. Unfortunately the MSI doesn't unrar like most do, so I'm about to install it on a dummy PC to get at the ADM.

Ok thanks.

Is it possible to extract that and use it with GPMC without having the toolkit installed on your clients?

I'll check, but are you guys saying that when a pupil goes to print in your school, they don't have a properties button?

5 magic beans to the first person to solve this!

They don't. The only permission they have is "Print"