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The other thing to watch for is any program which automatically generates hyperlinks when you type - Word, Excel etc. You can just type a URL and click it and a web browser will open. If you're using a proxy server then the simplest way to block web access is to either turn off the proxy for your exam room or for your group of exam students.

I know "shop around" is common advice but it's worth doing! My £50,000 of contents cover costs me about £60 per year in London; some of the quotes I got were many times higher for what looked like the same cover.

With the IDE drive, are you sure you had it connected the right way round? I don't think you can get it wrong because it won't power up if you don't but does no harm to check :-) If it does appear in the disk management console but not in explorer then it may be that you just need to run chkdsk - I had a disc do exactly this last week.

What sort of IT do you want to do? I've passed ITIL foundation and I've done an introduction to Prince 2. Neither is really about the Technology bit of ICT - they're a lot more focussed on the IC bit. Prince is particularly relevant if you want to work in a big organisation and get involved in big projects. I work in a University; we have full time project managers in ICT who make sure every one knows what's going on in their projects, that it's all properly documented etc but they don't actually do the technical stuff. As an example, we're moving to a VoIP system with about 10,000 extensions. Making sure that all the steps happen in the right order and at the right time is quite a task for the project manager! ITIL would be useful if you want to be involved in managing IT services - it's very much geared towards the delivery of IT as a service like any other service a big organisation uses (facilities, estates etc) I'm afraid the courses I did were internal (external trainer but only open to staff) so I can't really recommend a place to do it.

I reckon that's just because you're an old fogey :-) Every day I see people standing on the bus, quite happily typing on their iPhones etc so it's obviously possible to use a touch keyboard without too much difficulty. Speech recognition works pretty well for me just using the stuff built into Office. It's not something I could ever see myself using in our shared office and probably not on the bus (although as people quite happily make phone calls I'd guess they'd equally happily dictate emails etc)

If you're a Linux user then it's probably easier to use it on Linux; if you want to use it on Windows then I wrote these notes quite some time ago - they helped me get it going!

With a bit of perl to produce a nice summary, sorted so you can quickly see the big space hogs :-) Forgot to say yesterday but the nice thing about JDiskreport is that it's in Java so it's pretty much multi-platform - means you don't have to learn new ways of working for each machine you use or, to quote the web site "This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge binary multi-platform software that never expires." which sounds good to me!

Of course, the power of EduGeek means that the first hit is your post and then a load of others which are no use :-) To save me time for later, I think this is what you need: Boot Multiple ISO from USB (MultiBoot USB) | USB Pen Drive Linux and it looks really, really useful!

You're not alone there :-) Good news that you've beaten it, though - never good to let the computer win!

One thing you can do is to use linkd (resource kit tool) to make a junction point for stuff like c:\windows\driver cache to the D: drive (or where ever) This way, the drivers go on drive D: but the link makes them appear to be on C: - this is a quick fix to make space. Another folder which can move is c:\windows\softwaredistribution - stop the windows update service before you try and move it.

jdiskreport - JDiskReport

I think you're completely mis-understanding the kind of vulnerability which is most common. If I want to hack into "your" computer, I don't sit down at your computer and write code. I sit down at my computer and write code which I put on a web site. I then persuade "you" to visit my web site and that then exploits the vulnerability on your computer and gives me control. Stopping kids programming at school simply has no effect on that attack vector and I really don't like the "we can't allow programming at school because kids might do something bad" attitude!

If you have Adobe professional then you can lock the files so that a user can't copy the text from them and can't edit them. It still won't stop someone from screen grabbing an image and OCRing it (or even just typing it out from scratch!)

But that vulnerability is there whether or not you allow them access to programming tools. Many of the Internet Explorer vulnerabilities give elevated rights when you visit a "bad" website - your pupil hacker doesn't need programming facilities in school, they just need to set up a web page elsewhere (even on their home PC) which they then visit from school. Stopping kids doing programming will rarely protect you against vulnerabilities.

I worry about why he did nothing for 9 months after he found the PSU fault until another power supply failed! Sure, he's got redundant PSUs in his server but the idea is that if one fails you have to replace it, not wait for the whole lot to fail and then complain about how rubbish it is that you can't get an immediate replacement!

Yes :-) That's a really, really critical and relevant bit of info! Log onto a machine, goto a command prompt and type: set l you'll get at least one bit of info - the logonserver. If this isn't DC1 then that's why you're not getting the home directory mapped - servers dc2 and dc3 don't know anything about the new home directories but they're probably still servicing logon requests. When you did the "net user" query earlier that won't necessarily contact the logon server (I *think* it tries to contact the machine with the PDC emulator FSMO role; I'd guess this is DC1 which will have the right info). I've posted some info in the other thread which might help fix the problems but as a quick check, stop the netlogon service on dc2 and dc3 and then logon to a workstation. This will force you to authenticate against dc1 and I hope that you'll get the home directory!

On server3, go to a command prompt and type: ipconfig /all this will give you all the information about the machine's network settings. What DNS server is shown? You don't say which of your DCs is running DNS but the answer you get should point to the server(s) running DNS. If it doesn't then fixt that and try a: ipconfig /registerdns Check the event log after a few minutes - there should be no errors (you should see a message saying that it's trying to register; there isn't anything if it does registger but there will be messages if it fails) If the server is hopelessly out of sync then it may not be possible to get it to re-sync (and you may not want to - you could get out of date objects moving back to the "good" DC1). The simplest thing to do is run dcpromo on the "broken" DC to take it down to a standalone server. Wait about 15 minutes and then run dcpromo again to make it back to a DC. This generally fixes problems (and is non-destructive as long as 1 DC is working well and can be located by DNS)

Doesn't it just autolog you on as administrator in safe mode???

I know the link mentions XP but it's actually a change that was first made with XP (compared to 2000) and will affect XP, 2003 server, 2008 server, Vista, windows 7 etc etc - surely it's got to be worth a try?? You shouldn't have to do anything - you certainly don't need scripts or policies to map the drive.

The various things to reset the password for admin won't help if the account's disabled but I think you should be able to use them to blank the password, boot in safe mode when the account is available, log on as administrator and then either enable the admin account (can't remember what gui tools are available but net user administrator /active:yes at the prompt will do it) or once you've logged on in safe mode you can just rename the broken profile folder - that should force creation of a new one for that user at next logon.

Because there are lots of PCs scattered around the place and it would take a long time to do it?? You can quickly setup a replacement tftp server (eg tftpd32) - my thinking would be that it would send out something that would say "boot from first hard disc" but I've no idea how to do that :-( There's stuff here Guides about TFTPD32 and PXE LAN booting on using tftpd which might help.

I think it's quite healthy that that poster:lurker is low! If you take a look at good old fashioned books, they're written by one person and read by thousands (millions??) but we don't worry about the fact that only one person has contributed to the book. Edugeek is more than a 1 person, static book but if it gets to the point where all xxx thousand users are contributing every day then it will become unusable - you'll just be buried the input!

proxy is a good point - playing Real Audio through even a Socks proxy is often problematic. Just to confirm, I can use VLC to open the files but I'm not using a proxy. Weirdly, I can't get them to play with Real Player (we have the Enterprise version here which ought to work ...)

and me :-)

OK; so far it looks as if nothing is wrong with AD - the user account obviously has the right values set. The net use command shouldn't have persisted - it was just a check for the data in AD. Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization feature talks about "wait for network" - it's particularly referring to folder redirection but I'd guess it could help with this (a few of the sites I found when googling "troubleshooting home directory fails to map at login" linked to it). Try setting the GPO listed here The Home Folder may be mapping incorrectly when logging on to a Windows XP-based computer (which also talks about problems with home directory connection)