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A quick check with a hex editor shows that the tags are written to the jpg file. This is reasonable; changing tags is not really destructive whereas some of the edits you can make could really mess up the photo so having a kind of "edit list" in an .ini file is a good idea.

The Windows team blog quoted says "Windows 7 Starter does not include: Personalization features for changing desktop backgrounds, window colors, or sound schemes." which suggests that the control panel bit for changing background isn't there but doesn't say "you can't change" (but knowing MS, anything is possible, however daft!!)

I've seen drives disappear completely before and completely disconnecting the power, waiting a bit and then reconnecting has magically made it come back. Too late now, but it's always a good idea to restart the machine before you run updates - that way, if it doesn't restart you know it's not an update problem but a machine problem and you don't waste time looking at the updates to see what went wrong

Is the .sch.uk domain just redirecting all traffic to the .co.uk domain (this is sometimes done by just putting a frame inside a main page?) If this is the case, then because all your content is on the .co.uk domain I don't think you can get the sch domain to show up - there's nothing there.

You should be able to follow the mult-step process on the HP Business Support forums Business support forums - SATA drivers for XP Alternatively, it's probably easier to add the drivers to your XP install (press F6 when prompted etc), leaving the machine in AHCI mode all the way through

The quote's actually taken from an interview in the Guardian which doesn't make clear what kind of teaching he's thinking about. When he came here last year, he talked about applying for a job as a lecturer and I suspect he was referring to teaching in a university context rather than a school.

You should be able to use the code below. Basically, it gets the name of the user and computer, clears all existing drive mappings and then connects to the user object to get its properties. It then loops through all the groups, converts the name to lower case (may not be necessary but does no harm ...) and then calls a routine to check what drives should be mapped for the groups. You'll need to change the "mapdrive" subroutine to deal with the groups you have and the shares you want to use. the only thing this won't cope with is nested groups but I'm guessing that in a workgroup you're not likely to have such a problem. Set oNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network") sUser=oNetwork.UserName sComputer=oNetwork.computername ClearMappedDrives set oUser=getobject("WinNT://" & sComputer & "/" & sUser) for each oGroup in oUser.groups sGroup=lcase(oGroup.name) MapDrive sGroup next sub clearmappeddrives set oDrives=oNetwork.enumnetworkdrives For i = 0 to oDrives.Count - 1 Step 2 onetwork.removenetworkdrive oDrives.Item(i) Next end sub sub MapDrive(sGroup) select case sGroup case "administrators" oNetwork.mapnetworkdrive "z:","\\computer1\share1" oNetwork.mapnetworkdrive "q:","\\computer2\sharedocs" case "finance" oNetwork.mapnetworkdrive "q:","\\computer2\sharedocs" case "registry" oNetwork.mapnetworkdrive "q:","\\computer2\sharedocs" end select end sub

Me please! If I were into conspiracy theories, I'd suggest that this is deliberately placed in the week that many people will get paid but I'm not a conspiracist (?) so I won't :-)

It ought to save when you save the document but I don't think you can set it as a default for a new document. You can set it as a default in a template so if you have a need to create lots of different docs which will be labels then that would be a way to do it.

Would you really want a management snapin with 500 computers listed??? I can't imagine how long that would take to load or the network traffic it could generate as it tries to connect to 500 machines! If you need to check out (say) a dozen computers then saving a special MMC makes sense. If you're doing 500 to check local groups/users then you really need to look at some kind of scripting to query the data and stick it in a database or report of some kind!

Your comments about slow network transfers for the 5Gb file probably do rule out wireless but a really quick way to find out more would be to just plug a laptop into a wired socket and log on - is it any quicker? Assuming you've got 802.11g wireless and 100Mbit networking then if the wireless is the problem then you'd expect to see a substantial speed increase. If you don't then you can probably say that it's not the wireless at fault. You can quickly see if the GPOs are causing a problem by creating a test OU and putting one machine in it. In the properties of the OU, block GP inheritance - in that way, no policies will apply and you get to see if they are having an adverse affect. If you find that the test OU now goes more quickly then there may be too much going on in the GPO settings. This can be complicated to fix. Some policies will be slow the first time they apply but then will take almost no time (for example, if you set a policy to change the permissions on the whole of program files then this could take minutes to apply but should only apply once) Google "userenv debug logging" to find out how to setup logging of the gpo application process. Basically, you end up with a log file showing you how long was spent at each stage of logon (remember to turn off the logging when you've finished - it adds to the logon burden!) Good luck!

You definitely want to make sure that the machines have strong BIOS passwords set; at the risk of being boring (again!) can I just stick in my old mantra - "if it takes a long time, you're doing it wrong" :-) Most modern PCs ought to have a BIOS whose settings can be managed remotely - it's certainly true for HP and Dell and I'm pretty sure it's true for most others (anything labelled vPRO or AMT can also do this). Use the tools to do the remote management and you can then get the hardware locked down so that people can't boot from anything you don't want. Introducing software restriction policies can be time consuming but probably needs doing but you need to focus on protecting stuff first; you may not want pupils playing games but it doesn't really do any harm. If there are open network shares which allow access to confidential material then that's far more serious and needs dealing with first. How should traffic get out to the internet? if it's just that there's a default gateway set on machines which points to a router going outside then can you change it so that the default gateway has no internet access and then configure your web browsers to use a proxy? It will break some applications but the vast majority of genuine internet use will be with a web browser and it will work fine with (eg) Squid or ISA server

You can configure a scheduled task to run every 15 minutes - just look in the advanced properties of task scheduler - but why do you want to do this? If you look at the properties of the service in service manager you'll see a "what to do if the service stops" and there's a load of things, including restart it. You can also specify what to do it it stops more than once so you could have "restart" on first and second failure but "run a program" on the third - that program could send an email to you to alert you to trouble. You can also control how long the count lasts for (ie it isn't "first ever failure" but "first failure in 15 minutes" or whatever you choose)

I've no intention of defending this or any other MP abusing the system but it's simply not true to say that in industry they'd have been sacked for behaviour like this. One of the problems is that everyone talks about "MP's Expenses" and if you think of them like that then there is absolutely no justification for what people have done. They're actually called "allowances" and if you tell someone "you're ALLOWED to claim up to £23,000 per year; you just need some plausible receipts" then many people are going to claim that money. It doesn't mean they're not greedy but it does meant that they're not stealing or committing fraud (in most cases!) The allowances have been in place for decades (Margaret Thatcher increased the amounts which could be claimed but I think they were in place before that) One of the most infuriating things is how little the press have commented on the whole thing previously. Yes, we never knew that people were claiming for duck houses and gaming computers but it's always been known that MPs could claim £23k per year (or whatever the amount was). Why was no-one saying "why do they need this money?" After all, lots of people commute huge distances per week or have to live away from home for part of the week - most of them get to cover basic costs for this so why should MPs be different!! And while I'm on a rant, can I just talk about David Cameron? His constituency is in Abingdon, he lives in London which is less than 70 miles away and yet he couldn't possibly support the idea of hotel type accommodation for MPs because they must have family homes! He claims he "needs" to maintain 2 family homes so that the whole family can move between them. Well, very nice, but I don't see why we should pay for it!!

If you fancy doing a model engineering course so you too can build stuff like this you can still get them at some FE colleges - eg Model Engineering - College of North West London (CNWL) - Online Course Search

Seems reasonable - Microsoft want people to try out IE8 and see what they think of it. If they try it, then they get a chance to win some money and Microsoft get feedback on what people think of the browser. Go round any supermarket and you'll see products with competitions and coupons - you can only join in if you get the product.

Don't know the fortigate product at all, but a bit of googling suggests that its web filter can import squidguard blacklists. If this is true, then look at SquidGuard for some sets of blackists; there's one called "audio video" which is basically a list of popular web sites providing video. If you blocked all of those then it would be a start! In ISA server and Squid there's a facility to say "for Mime type XXXX allow YYY% of bandwidth" - this makes it easy to say that audio/video is seriously throttled on every web site but everything else goes through OK. Can you have a look for something similar in fortigate???

There's a job going at my old college - CNWL | Jobs It's nearly a year since I left so I don't know a lot about what's going on at the moment but it's a big FE college which makes generally good use of IT so there's a lot of scope to develop and work in a much bigger environment than most schools. Salary in the range £25,689 - £27,207 NB Closing date is 22 June so you need to hurry up if you want to apply!

HP will want it back and will hunt you down if you don't return it :-) The waste of resources involved in shipping low cost items is phenomenal; eg DVD drive fails. We make an online request and new drive turns up within the next 24 hours or so having been flown in from mainland Europe. We then have to return the faulty drive (price when new about £10??) - no hassle, a courier comes and picks it up. It's then flown back to another centre in Europe presumably so it can just be thrown away!

Exchange creates 2 kinds of log files; the ones you mention are from IIS and are the logs for OWA - as you say, these can (and should!) be deleted regularly. The other log files MUST NOT be deleted manually; they will be deleted when a successful backup takes place. The files will be in the MDBDATA folder - if you have any dated earlier than your last backup then (a) your backup isn't working and (b) they will take up lots of space until your back up works.

You can actually do a step 0 - copy all the data using robocopy, mirroring and preserving permissions, while the system is in use. At a convenient down time, you re-do the mirroring but this will be pretty quick - you're now only copying files which were open or are new.

Just a thought, but is that really a good use of your time (roughly 7 hours assuming you did break for lunch!)? Are you aware of problems caused by the images stored? I can understand that if someone says "I think Joe Bloggs is distributing porn" that you need to check on Joe Bloggs, but checking every image in every home folder??

Too late now, but if you're in this kind of situation again you can easily get the manufacturer from device manager. Get the properties of the network card which needs a driver and go to the details tab. Choose "hardware IDs" from the dropdown - the info there tells you what the card is. The first part of the number tells you the manufacturer; 2 common ones are Intel which is 8086 and Broadcom which is 14E4 If you want to know more, go to PCI Vendor and Device Lists

Launching a program links to a script I wrote ages ago. Basically, you replace the icons on the start menu with links to a script to launch your apps. As part of the process, it writes to a database each time an app is launched (records username, computer name, launch time and end time)

What software are you using to manage the student records? If it's Agresso QL then I can find details of how you find the most recently created accounts. If it's not that then you should still be able to query the database and then you run a script which loops through all student records and says "have I got an account? - yes; skip to next; no - create new account" We printed the username and password on the learning agreement - password defaulted to the ddmm bit of birthdate and students were encouraged to change this and something like this is the easiest way to go. Not sure about your students but we had huge numbers who were learning English; this meant you had to have something which could be easily explained.