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When marking up new equipment we have been using special compound over a stencil sticker which we then peel off which has our school name and postcode displayed. The roll of stencil stickers which have lasted nearly 3 years are about to run out and I was looking at alternatives. I wondered what everyone else does about security marking and if anyone could recommend anything?

Its not server managed, its uses dongles, so each pc has to have a USB dongle plugged in. We plugged them in and had to cable tie them to the grill on the back of the case so that they didnt go missing

Sound devices are Edirol UA-4FX and software they use mostly is Cubasis and Cubase as well as Dance Ejay. It is work noting that we do have about 5 macbooks too but i try to keep my hands clean of them

We upgraded our Music suite earlier in the year. We have a desk that runs all along the wall which previously had the PC's, monitors and music keyboards on along with a keyboard and mouse. It was a cluttered mess! We had the caretakers run a thin shelf above the desk to put the PC's on, (sides against the wall way) and with a hole to run all the cables down. We then purchased some cheap TFT wall mounts to mount the monitors on the wall below the shelf but high enough to clear the music keyboards in case they want to pull the arms out and bring the monitor off the wall. so on the desk we just have a musical keyboard with a pc keyboard and mouse in front of it. As for computers we went with PC's, Spec; Intel Core 2 Quad 2.50 GHz 4 GB RAM I did have some pictures but cant find them all with a cakewalk usb sound sevice that was requested by the music staff which they plug all their instruments etc into.

Just tested it and works like a beauty. thank you so much for everything, been a life saver. i owe you big time!

Thats brilliant, could i ask that you rewrite the original script for WMI. That would be brilliant if you could.

I just dropped it into the startup folder for all users and logged on as a student, unplugged the cable like they do then locked the worksation and to my joy it still logged them off! - so was this what it should be doing, some sort of check at logon and force a logoff even if the workstation is locked?? If i log on without unplugging though i get a window "Form1" come up saying timer started, timer proc'd and drive mapped i think it is. Then if i try and unplug a cable after this it doesnt log me off (which is exactly what i want as kids have a habit of turning off the wireless switch on their mates laptops, so i'm happy for our current script to just detect this and lock the workstation and kill iexplorer, to carry on doing this) So can you just tell me exactly what this does, in case i've got it a bit wrong or if there is a feature i've not come accross yet and then i guess the question is can we get the form1 window to not be visible at logon?? Thanks again for all your help with this btw.

yep sure have

copied so that its always there yes

the script is copied to the windows directory and run on startup.

problem is staff use youtube and its not just facebook and youtube, its lots of other sites like game sites. My colleague is looking at denying all internet access to unauthenticted users which would solve it, except that then causes problems for some of our servers, such as anti virus updates and the same amount of computers we have on the network that are connected but not on the domain, such as staff ipdas and phones etc. As they are locking the workstation to prevent the logoff script from running, i'm thinknig how easy would it be to put something together that either disables all keyboard input for the first 10 seconds or the ability to lock the worksation, and so that it only is enabled after 10 seconds...... although i'm not sure a) if they will still be able to prevent a script like that running or if its even possible to do as i wouldnt have a clue where to start trying to script something like that

seems the script still isnt stopping them, it looks like if they pull the network cable at the right time, somehow it doesnt work because kids are still getting on facebook, youtube etc. So starting to run out of ideas, if anyone has anything else we could try it would be greatly appreciated!

On further testing, sometimes it does log the user straight off after you unlock, sometimes it gets stuck in the logoff process but get the trying to end explorer.exe process i described above BUT i dont think they can actually get anything to load when its in this state, although i've not exhaustivly checked this. Because i'm a VB noob, where exactly would i put that line to kill iexplorer.exe? above the shutdown line (i changed it to logoff on mine)? Thanks for all your help, i really appreciate it!

On further testing, sometimes it does log the user straight off after you unlock, sometimes it gets stuck in the logoff process but get the trying to end explorer.exe process i described above BUT i dont think they can actually get anything to load when its in this state, although i've not exhaustivly checked this. Because i'm a VB noob, where exactly would i put that line to kill iexplorer.exe? above the shutdown line (i changed it to logoff on mine)? Thanks for all your help, i really appreciate it!

It kind oif works but..... when you unlock the script starts the logoff but you get a ticker box ending explorer.exe then if you press "end now" it obviously logs off like it shoud but if you press cancel you can get Internet Explorer Open and ignore the attempt at trying to logoff and you can carry on use iexplorer. would you know how to add in a line in the loop to kill iexplorer.exe so that if its open it gets closed and if its opened again just keeps getting closed (if it would work like that)

Ok so what do i need to change then to achieve what i want to do? as like i said i know very little about VB.

That 5 second wait is a waint until it actually runs the IF's part of the script. So windows loads, it runs the script, waits 5 seconds then checks for the conditions, if they aren't met it logs off. Without the 5 second wait EVERYONE gets logged off because it runs before the H: Drive is mapped. However if you lock the workstation before the desktop has loaded, the script runs but doesnt log you off if the workstation is locked. After this has run, they unlock and free to do as they wish. So i need the script to loop, constantly checking for a H: drive, which at the moment it isnt doing, its only looking once. But i dont know how to do this as this script was taken from from this site in the first place.

There has to be an initial wait (we currently have it at 5 seconds) this is so that the H: drive is mapped BEFORE the script check for it, if there is no wait it will just log everyone off we found.

This kidn of worked, when it loops and runs logoff.exe you get a End Process window for explorer.exe. if you click end now, it logs off fine, if you dont and then press cancel and mash the keys a bit, lock it then unlock, the start bar might have dissaperared buy you can still open up the C; drive and run iexplorer and mess about like that. So, nearly but not quite

thats what i want to do but dont know how to write that. If you can tell me how i'd be interested to see.

We have a script running which stops kids from unplugging the cable mid logon and not getting our smoothwall settings so that thewy can get on Facebook and YouTube. The problem is they have found out that if they do a Windows Lock while the desktop loads, which is when the script runs, that it overiddes the script and doesnt log them off, they then unlock it and carry on using it. Basically i could do with some VB wizz telling me if there is a way to force the logoff even when the worksation is locked OR to infinitenly loop the script so that it just keeps checking for the conditions every 60 seconds. The script is; Dim objNetwork Dim strUserName Dim WshShell Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set ObjFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") WScript.Sleep 5000 strUserName = objNetwork.UserName if strUserName = "Administrator" then else strDomain = objNetwork.userdomain if strdomain = "MLZ" then **this is a different domain that 6th formers and college students use who dont have H: drives mapped so can be excluded else if ObjFSO.DriveExists("h:") then **this is their home drive, if they do the unplug cable logon then they dont get their network drives and this is the condition we use to determine that they have been messing around, so log them off. else WshShell.Run "logoff.exe" End if End if End if

i want a quick and easy way to find out which computer in the school a particualr user is logged onto. Is there an easy way of doing this within windows or with any free software?

been looking at these for our i.t teachers but am i right in saying there is no Windows 7 version out and its Android only?

i've figured it out. I just had to disable the EDID info on the computer graphics card, and that let me set the correct res on my monitor which the projector then follows suit, so its all fixed!

so i've figured out the problem. The problem occurs when you use a VGA extension. a single VGA cable from computer to projector allows us to change the res to anything. One you add an extension cable it only allows you to go to 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600. So i'm assuming the vga wall panels we have installed are causing the same problem and acting just like an extension. With the extension we tried removing pin 12 but still wont work. So i know the cause of the problem now, just not how to fix it if i want to use a projector and clone it to a monitor. any ideas?