Gary437

I'm a Smoothie user

This was brought to my attention just last week and naturally I was horrified that staff ans students could access this material. I was similarly astounded that local authorities had not known of this and taken appropriate action For those who have Smoothwall filtering, please see their knowledge base, which has a quick and painless fix for this problem, well done Smoothie For those who do not have Smoothwall, I'm afraid I have no other solution but to block Google until a more permanent fix is found.

This "thing" is becoming a major hassle. A workaround is all I have but a real cause and effect solution hasn't been found so far and I am going to stop actively looking for one and deal with the workaround. The workaround is nothing new, in fact it goes all the way back to the first post by Skeep... use a previous version. In my case I have stopped WMP from being updated by WSUS and reverted back to WMP 9. Later I might install Media Player Classic with the lite versions of QT and Real, which will get rid of two other pieces of problem software.

This is a post which will make some of you smile, but only if you are using Websense v7. This solution will block igoogle in all it's forms. #1 Remove all present recategorization entries for igoogle. #2 In Websense Manager, click on "Recategorize a URL" from the tasks pane on the right hand side of the page. #3 Select a previously created, custom-blocked category or add a new one, select it, then click "add". #4 Click on "Advanced" to show the "Regular Expressions" dialog then click on "Add Expression". #5 Add these two entries: google\.[a-z]*.[/]ig google\.[a-z]*\.[a-z]*.[/]ig #6 Save your changes, then check if the policy applied to your users has the custom category containing this entry set to "blocked". This works for me, hope it works for you too.

I have used all of the above at one time or another for various tasks. If you are looking for an inexpensive and effective tool for desktop support and classroom monitoring, use ABTutor. This is one of my latest toys and in my opinion it beats its competitors with ease. AB Tutor Control | ABTutor | Classroom Management Software | PC Remote Access | ESafety

I have uninstalled each WMP update in turn to try and see if one of the updates was causing the problem, but WMP wouldn't work at each stage.

I have created a new profile for a test user and it still doesn't work. Even unintalling/reinstalling doesn't work either.

Hi everyone, I am having the same problem with WMP11. I have tried all the above with no success. I am using mandatory profiles on the network and will try creating a new profile and see how that goes, keep you posted.