craiglay

With a school that size, +1 for the HP ML110 G5. Excellent value for money and solidly built. 2 of my schools run these, bought off the shelf, upgraded to 2GB RAM, extra HD configured as mirrored RAID from the onboard RAID controller. One school has about 25-30 clients and the other 40-50 ish. They run very well, and I haven't experienced any problems with them over a year (touching wood). If your wanting a solution which you can just move an image to alternate hardware, try experimenting with virtualisation. Ps, I'm also in the process of purchacing one for another school I manage. Craig

Yes, working in 5 of my primary schools. Cant remember exactly how to do it as i set it up ages ago. When i'm next in, i'll try post how to do it. You have to extract some files out of the Windows Server 2003 setup disk, and make sure they're in the right place. How much RAM have you got in your clients and how big is your BartPE image. BartPE over RIS copies the image into RAM and executes from there, so you'll need to fit the image in RAM plus about 100MB free to run BartPE. 256MB is shady on a rather cut down image, often running out of RAM, 192MB reboots everytime Craig

Very very dim, as in u can only read it when held up to the light in certain ways then i'd say the screen inverter at the bottom of the screen has failed. Craig

I have mandatory profiles for all pupils, and roaming profiles for staff so i added the registry keys to the mandatory profiles, and assume the staff can select whatever language they like. Job done. Craig

You can try this Group Policy item Computer Configuration-> Windows Settings -> Security settings -> Local policies -> Security Options -> Interactive Logon : Number of previous logons to cache Set to zero and Windows won't be able to log them on if they're not connected to the network. I would assume it will let local accounts login. Best to test first! Craig

Does Civ2 even run on Windows XP? I seem to remember (twas a while ago) the game never loaded. Craig

Are u running the Equinet Cachepilot now then? I have them in my schools running as the proxy and Espresso server. I have issues when the client computer is running IE7, all I get is the red cross in a placeholder. If I double click it (as an admin) I get prompted to "use Windows Media Player plugin" and it seems to work. Clients running with IE6 are unaffected. My clients are also setup to exclude the imediate subnet from the proxy. I'm looking to set IE7 to allow the plugin for all users, as it seems to be a per-user setting (understandable but annoying). Craig

I probably wouldn't do that as I've had problems where the printer would be unavailable to the print server if a user prints directly to it. Is the printer added as a machine wide printer or a user only printer (default)? Craig

How about one of these: Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-USB From: Hauppauge WinTV-USB Capture Card External USB TV + Teletext + Capture C/S Video - Ebuyer Craig

Erm, I have loads of these around.. Thanks for the heads up! Had a few cut out due to overheating but nothing that drastic. Craig

As a fellow Norfolk ICT Tech, i'll break it to you that ICT Solutions filter WSUS directly and always have. All is not lost however, as they now have an WSUS 3 SP1 upstream server. If you give them a call, they may provide the IP to you, else i can have a look at my settings tomorrow. Craig

Hi County have pushed out WSUS 3 SP1 to a number of the primary schools I work in. I'm not complaining as it saves me a load of work. However, it seems regardless of network size, it can take between 100MB - 500MB in RAM. (w3wp.exe and sqlserv.exe) No other SQL or web services run on the servers. My biggest network probably has 40-50 domain machines Is this about right? Has anyone got any tips to optimise memory usage? Thanks, Craig

There is a setting in the Intel drivers if you're using the 2200BG's and up "Roaming aggressiveness" that may helpwith that. Craig

Yup... IMHO The only real good thing about it is the Logon interface (I work with Nursery to Yr6 schools) Everything else can be done much better with Group Policies. (This is my opinion and not the opinion of my employer)

Also, depending on the version of Winsuite (i think), new users are not automatically assigned to any group so you'll have to place them in a group and make them members of the group in AD before the correct desktop will load.

Had an issue like this with a "Smart" board recently.. Was the driver version, used the one supplied on the disk, it worked fine. With the Promethean ones, this normally means the controller is faulty and needs replaced.

This is probably Speedstep as my laptop and pc sometimes shows this. Try running CPUZ on the affected machine and see what that says. It will give you a realtime indication of CPU speed. Craig

Erm, how about this? Joiku - JoikuSpot Light Probably wont work with PSP tho as this creates an Ad-Hoc connection rather than infrastructure mode. I've used the WM6 version, WMwifirouter and it works quite well. Just need 3G where I live now! Craig

Pro Evo 2008 on the Wii is awesome. You really have to think about what you're doing! Takes ages to get used to though.

Dan, Could they the Edge10 ones you supplied to me? This reminds me, I got an AG Neovo hard glass to warrenty repair at some point. :S

Just had 16 delivered... The other HP 6720s laptops i setup recently were very nice and a breeze to "upgrade" to XP Pro

Are you trying to login wirelessly? You may have to play about with the group policy to force Windows to run the scripts as there is a timeout which may cause this. I'm afraid I'm not at work today so haven't got access to a server to tell ya what they are but roughly, its "slow link detection" and "always wait for roaming profile" Craig

Well done SYSMAN, It is indeed a Mazda 3 Sport Saloon. The hatch just doesn't look right, and the dull silver is an awesome colour. Close Gatt, I think its taken on the mainland somewhere along the A87. Cant quite remember where now though. There's a big waterfall behind me though.. Thats a stunning picture there Gatt, where is that?

Home PC: Intel Q6600, 2Gb RAM, NVidia 8800GTS 320, Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combo Windows XP 1280 x 1024 Taken on the Isle of Skye road on holiday in Scotland

The easy way would be to set up your winsuite will no security but to retain the logon system. Then you can use GPO's to set your security, set desktop and start menu redirection in GPO to a locked shared folder on the server so you can ensure software is accessable and easy to deploy to users by just dropping the shortcut into the share. (disable all users desktop / start menu to avoid confusion) Mandatory profiles ensure the kids cant mess it up as when they logoff, all changes will be disgarded. If you have any questions, just ask. I've done it before. Craig