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Ok. I can now confirm that Symantec are a bunch of W*nkers. FACT! I've installed ghost, created a few folders and a few tasks. Ran a so-called "repair". All my configurations are now wiped. :x :x :x

Notepad2 is nice. a "better" version of notepad - includes line numbers and little extras like that.

Yep! When I said access it, I meant that our students have locked down desktops and mandatory profiles.

Handy yes. Dammed big security risk definitely!! How so? Only admins can access or run it.

I got a response from Symantec: I'm going to do a test install of ghost and set up a few tasks, then try another repair to see if this is standard behaviour or something caused by my initial fault.

If by "remotely" you mean other PCs on the domain, then deploy the "windows 2003 server adminpak.msi" to all workstations, then on any PC in the domain you can go to the Administrative Tools folder and work on Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS or whatever. I also deploy the group policy management console throughout the domain too. Bloody handy.

Ghost was running fine for almost two years, and was registered fine. Unfortunately I don't have the error with me at the moment, but it was long and rambling. I think I have a screen dump somehwere, if I can find it I'll post it up tomorrow. I didn't try to reinstall it either, I choose the repair option - you'd have thought that would leave all the configuration stuff there.

Not wishing to be smart etc: did you try stopping and restarting the service? My older version of Ghost Console used to lock up on opening from time to time but sorted itself when the service was restarted. Not much help to you now I know, but maybe for the future? Yep, stopped and started the service and the server has been rebooted a couple of times recently. Cheers for the reply though.

We don't have a lot of space, so I only back up user files and the system state. I never envisaged the need to get anything from Program Files as I thought anything there could just as easily be re-installed. Dang!, looking online for a cheap time-machine now (no jokes about them being bought by Tiny, please)

Yep, I already had that email, so it's licenced fine again. (I was hoping that the tasks etc. were tied to a license and that when I filled it in, they would magically re-appear. Alas, no)

i might start now though

Nope, I don't backup the Program Files folder

When I've tried to open the Ghost Console over the last few weeks, it's come up with an error. Today I decided to do a "repair" from the Ghost 8 CD and now it opens telling me that my 30 day trial is over. All my clients are missing, the neat folders that PCs were sorted into too, and all my tasks It took me ages to sort all those out. I've stuck in the licence again and all my machines have returned to the default group. I don't suppose that any of you guys have had a similar experience and know how to get all my info back? In Program files\ symantec \ghost there is a db folder, but I think that it just holds the machine info. Where are the tasks stored? What a day!

Nice one Geoff, Thanks.

Good idea. What is the screensaver process? I haven't noticed that before. Cheers.

I was hoping to not have to disable the screensaver, but if needs must, then I will. Can you set the monitor turn-off time from a group policy (I'm certainly not walking to the machines ) I do it the remote way (/m \\%computername%) where all the PCs are read in from a script. I don't worry about them being left off as I like to do everything through group policies, so if I make a change they'll get it the next time they switch on, whenever that is. Cheers for the help.

Hi Guys, Hi, I have a script that automatically shuts down all PCs in our Windows XP domain at 8pm, so that the backup doesn't fail due to open files (Did someone say SIMS?). The staff know that they are supposed to switch off their machines every night, and that if they forget and leave work open then they are likely to lose it. Unfortunately the script fails if, as is most likely, the PC is showing a screen saver (even the default Windows XP screensaver without a password). If I go to a machine that should have been shut down and move the mouse to get rid of the screen saver, the PC immediately shows "Windows is shutting down" and shuts down. The script was not able to execute while the screensaver was running. I do use the "force" switch for my script. Here is an example of the line: SHUTDOWN -S -F -T 00 Any ideas would be a great help. Cheers

Ho do you set that up Stewart? If I focus on the Statue of Liberty, for example, I can't get World Wind to get in anywhere near as close as Google Earth. With Google Earth you can make out the blobs that are tourists around the statue, but with World Wind, I can only get it to show a grainy picture in which I can just make out the statue itself.

Cheers for that. I saw the long spiel on their website, but it was a little too much for me

What is the difference between the Free and the Pro versions anyway? - are ALL places at the higher resolution that just the cities have in the free version?

That sounds good Stewart, but I can't find it. Do you have a link, please?

Sounds like it allright. Maybe I won't kick up a fuss then

That's what we've got allright Mark (the same box as in your photo) and that's the one that is £960. Our client licenses are only £8 though.

Cheers for the updates. Looks like he sells the Box at a loss then, and makes up for it by charging higher client licenses.

He sorts out paper jams and things like that. Those little jobs drive me nuts.