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So HDGuard from RDT Global is a hard disk protection system. You take an image of the hd as soon as you have finished installing everything you need on it and each time the machines is rebooted that is exactly what you see. No amount of student fidiling and deleting of files can kill it. For several years now we have used HDGuard with varying lelvels of sucess. And as the OS's get more and more complex HDGuard is less and less effective. Or at least that is the way it seems to me. Has anyone any experience of good quality hard disk protection programs ? If so what are they? Comments always welcome

We use a little bit of software called UMRA to extract the DOB from SIMS and paste that into the AD meaning that each student only has to remember thier DOB. This is then changed at 1st login each year... or when ever we decide that we want to reset all the passwords. We have found that UMRA is a good little tool that does what we want.