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I think you can specify en-GB for the locale (but, as ever, I can't find anything on the MS web site to confirm this) Sorry I can't help with the rest of it; only just managed to get Chinese working in XP!

Web based generally a good idea Flash/shockwave OK but watch out for visually impaired students System must save state at the end of each question - this means that if a machine fails; user closes browser; world ends etc nothing is lost System must allow student to abandon test for whatever reason (time runs out, feels ill etc) and what has been done so far is marked (just like paper test) Should be mock/practice tests available in same format (very disconcerting if they come into a test and it's completely different from anything they saw before)

I don't have VB6 installed at the moment but if you're just checking for 0,1 or 2 users (and there will never be more) then I think you want to just look at the count of records and use a case statement based on that. Try something like this: Private Sub Form_Activate() ' Connect to the database and open users table Set db = DBEngine.OpenDatabase(App.Path & "\db\mon_bud.mdb") Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("tbl_users", dbOpenDynaset) iCount=rs.recordcount select case iCount case 0 lblUser1.Caption = "Please define users" lblUser2.Caption = "Please define users" case 1 lblUser1.Caption = rs!Name & "'s Income" lblUser2.Caption = "User 2 not in use" case 2 lblUser1.Caption = rs!Name & "'s Income" rs.movenext lblUser1.Caption = rs!Name & "'s Income" end select Set rs = Nothing Exit Sub End Sub

There's quite a nice guide here - Sysprep a Windows 7 Machine – Start to Finish - Blog.BrianLeeJackson.com You need the Windows System Image Manager to create the unattend.xml file - it's part of WAIK which you can find here - Download details: Windows® AIK for Windows® 7 (it's a 1.7Gb download!) There are lots of web pages saying that the profile process doesn't work - that's also my experience (not that I want to put you off!) - but the unattend file does let you make a whole range of settings which can be useful (eg enabling/disabling features in Windows, running commands once the sysprepped image starts and so on) It's one of the excellent features that was introduced with Vista but because Vista was generally a nightmare, I don't think most people noticed!

By default, "my documents" always gets a recycle bin, even on the network. You can either tidy up after the event using a script like the one above or you can turn it off altogether - look up NukeOnDelete (serious registry value!!)

Do you get on well with the teachers in a particular subject area? If so, have a chat with them to try and get ideas about how IT could help raise achievement (and, no, you can't give them all iPods!) eg if you have a modern languages department which uses cassette tapes for listening then you could suggest that they could use a library of MP3s and help them build this. This should help with standards because you get less disruption when the pupils can go straight to the resource they need rather than running round chasing after tapes. Would be worth looking at the most recent Ofsted report - what did they criticise? You should try to see if there's anything you can do to help fix that. How are registers captured and processed? If you don't have electronic registration then you obviously can't buy it but you could offer to collect info on how it's used elsewhere. If you do have it, what is done about children who are late or absent? Are text messages sent to parents/carers? If not, could they be? Again, you can't do it yourself but you can put forward a plan as to how it could be done. If that's just completely impossible, what about some method of reporting on pupils who are regularly late; is this just missed (often data is collected and just "lost"). On a positive note, if pupils are always on time and rarely absent, does anyone notice and praise them? Can you generate reports from the MIS system on the "good guys"?

So do I and I'd hope that at least part of this is an at least half decent research project with some kind of measurement of outcomes so at the end of it we can either say "told you so, complete waste of time, money etc" or "wow, who would have ever thought you'd get those benefits!" It is a lot of money that's being spent but then so are some of the other projects that have happened in schools; if we don't spend money, we can never find out if the idea is good Anyone else remember the Micros in Schools programme back in 1981 - this put a single computer in every school. Not sure if all schools got an RML 380z but many did. I'm not sure of the price now but it was very expensive (I've got an idea of about £2,000 which would have been nearly half my salary at the time!) Spending that huge amount of money kick started the whole use of computers in school and has brought benefits (and problems, obviously). I certainly don't think we should go out and buy iPods for every pupil in every school but I think it's worth trying in a small number of them.

No. This is one of the wacky bits of method names in chunks of the Windows API; they end with an underscore just to make life difficult :-) Is the error reproducible (ie always for 1 user, 1 machine etc??) If so, can you try putting in an "on error resume next" at the beginning of the code and then this: For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters objPrinter.Delete_ if err.number<>0 then wscript.echo objPrinter.name end if Next that will at least tell you which printer is not deleting. The 0x80040001 error seems to be pretty non-specific ("something's gone wrong but I don't know what!") but there's some stuff here Code 80041001 - VBScript Error called failed which may help; particularly about clearing out the WBEM repository.

Most (all?) power settings are user specific so if you're changing them while logged on as admin, you're going to have no effect on what happens to the user.

Different users obviously have different needs but in general the benefit of putting everything in the image (compared to using GPO software installation or similar) is that you multicast the software which is part of the image compared to unicasting that which is put out later. If you've got (say) a 2Gb basic image and 5Gb of software and 20 machines in a room then you can either do this as 1 x 7Gb multicast or 1 x 2Gb multicast + 20 x 5Gb unicast which probably takes more time (even if you've got a 10Gbit feed to your local switch that's still only allowing you 500Mbit for each of your 20 clients). The benefit of multicasting is even more dramatic if you can do (say) 50 machines at a time. There are benefits, though, of keeping the apps separate. If you want to update an app, it's easy to just add the new one to the group policy; no need to redeploy the whole app.

Just looking at the man page for dhcpd.conf, I think there's no reason you can't give out different gateways for different groups of machines. I think you would do this in "group" sections which then specify a particular set of hosts (by MAC address) Don't know how well this would balance things but I'd guess if you split each of your physical groups of machines and allocate half/half then it would be a reasonable starting point. You just need to remember you've done this - one day, one router is going to go down and half the machines in a classroom won't have web access and you'll be tearing your hair out wondering why :-)

OK; think we're close :-) runCommand = "cmd /c ""c:\Program Files\A-PDF Rename\prncmd.exe"" Y:\" & strLine & " -CY:\Resources\macro.txt -i" prncmd.run runCommand,0 but it's way past my bedtime so I could have made a typo!

I can't work out what a single, correct command should look like - can you post just one line as you would type it to get it to work! Guessing at what it should be, I think you're trying to get: cmd /K "c:\Program Files\A-PDF Rename\prncmd.exe" Y:\ -CY:\Resources\macro.txt -i, 0 If so, then the runcmd line needs to be: runCommand = "cmd /K ""c:\Program Files\A-PDF Rename\prncmd.exe"" Y:\ " & strLine & "-CY:\Resources\macro.txt -i, 0" Why cmd /k? I think you might be better with cmd /c (/k shells the command and leaves the command processor running - you'll end up with lots of command shells open!) Not sure if it would be easier, but if you can get a list of the files in Excel (eg dir /b > c:\temp\files.txt and then open that file in Excel) then you can make a formula to add the necessary code to the file name; you then just copy and paste the list of commands into Notepad and save as a batch file. Working like this can be easier if it's just a one off (but is no use if you need to run this once a week etc)

As well as removing the pagefile, you can also remove hiberfil.sys (if power management is set to allow hibernation) - those 2 files alone are huge - could be 8Gb in total if you have 4Gb of RAM! Depending on the apps you have, can they be installed to leave part of themselves on a server? for example, the MSDN library (used with Visual Studio) is massive but can be installed so that the content stays on a server - that saves about a gigabyte. Do people use the office clipart? If not (eg because they use google images etc) then that saves a good chunk of space. Look at something like treesize - find out which folders are taking up space and focus on those.

I'd guess you could have some kind of process running at boot time (probably need to be a service) which runs (say) every 5 seconds and moves the window back to the right place. I don't know the name of the process that puts the logon box on the screen but assuming you can find it then the logic would be something like: get resolution of screen get handle for window of logon box get size of window and work out x,y for where it needs to be to be centred send message to that window saying "move to position x,y"

Are you looking in the wrong folder? The first line looks for files beginning with "00" in \\server\share\invoices but then the move line tries to do files called "SageXXXX"??? Are the files actually called "sage00" or are they called 00 but in a folder called \\server\share\invoices\sage\??

The ethanol that you would use in most schools is not pure - it's typically got benzene in it (because you can't get pure alcohol by distilling it from an alcohol/water mixture so you add benzene) and might have methanol added (you can then avoid paying excise duty). this then makes it a pretty hazardous cocktail - as a one off it won't do much harm but if you thought you could use it as cheap booze on a regular basis then you'd be on dodgy ground!!

Not asking for anonymous postings at all (and what exactly do I know about most people from their username - it rarely even gives a name for them!). You could have the username shown with a hyperlink to all their info (which is actually there anyway; just asking why it needs to be duplicated) I'm old - I remember the good old days of usenet and plain text where content mattered more than the pretty colours :-) Not sure that a 12 letter alphabet would help - don't you need more letters then to get the info across???

What do the numbers mean? Is it visitors (I know there are fewer than 203,941 members but I'd guess lots of people visit anonymously) or is it just pages retrieved? (ie if I visit Edugeeek 10 times today from a Windows 7 machine does that count as 10??) I'd guess what I'm asking is does that tell me the number of unique machines visiting the site or the number of visits (so someone who has the page auto-refreshing every 10 seconds counts an awful lot!)

It doesn't work with Windows 7 (needs a flash OCX which isn't there) but I do like the idea. I'm sure it's aimed at primary schools but I'm pretty sure it's got value for a much wider audience :-)

Losing all the stuff at the left hand side and leaving just the username would make much, much more difference but I'd guess some people like all that :-)

Are these desktop machines? If so, pretty much any network card will do - the key thing you need to check is what kind of slots they've got (you're saying "old"; I'd hope that they're not so old that they don't have PCI slots but you do need to check!) Assuming that they've got a PCI slot each then almost any NIC will do - £10 is a fair price to pay for a basic card (check it has drivers for the version of Windows you're using) You can get much more expensive cards; you're very unlikely to need them for the sort of thing I think you're wanting to do (they come into their own on servers and very busy networks)

Are you doing the print directly from SIMS or using Word? If it's Word (or Access) then you can put in conditional fields to help with this. Basically the pseudocode would be: if address1 <>"" then print address1 & "," else print address1 If you are using Word and this doesn't make sense then shout and I'll dig out some real code. Alternatively, if you really don't want the hassle then you could try and persuade the Head based on the Royal Mail recommendations but if you've got the sort of Head who likes "the good old days" then you might be fighting a losing battle :-)

I don't think it's quite true to say that they've patented "sudo". The patent (United States Patent: 7617530) specifically talks about a GUI interface to a sudo type action (so when you try and run "setup" in Windows XP it pops up a dialogue offering a choice of users) I don't like software patents, not least because the wording is so vague that you could prevent all sorts of things. I can't see the command line sudo being affected at all but the system used in a Linux GUI when you try and install software could be blocked from further development. (Linux will only let you elevate if your account has rights to elevate; Windows lets you use a different user's credentials which is more flexible)

I don't know anything about the law concerning TUPE but surely it has to be possible to vary the contract after the changeover? If it wasn't, you'd be stuck on the same pay for ever, for example, and I presume that doesn't happen (or does it???) You wouldn't expect your contract to be frozen for ever if you stayed working at the same school - there are often changes in small ways and sometimes major ways - so it seems reasonable to assume that the same could be true in BSF (but, as I say, I don't know anything about this so could be talking b*ll*cks!)