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Yeeehaww, love it.

Least it's not a rude message

Haha I can picture the delivery guy driving up, slapping a frying pan on your desk 'how d'ya like your eggs?'

I think that sounds quite nice to be fair!

Sausage and Coleslaw (left over from the barbie at the weekend!) with a bit o' spicey sauce in a nice cheesey bap! Hand prepared by moi.

I'm mulling over the idea in my head too. My local support team is saying go with CC4, but my gut feeling is that it is not the most cost effective/efficient way to go. However, I only have so many hours in the day, I am the only IT guy here (as well as being very new to all things school IT + networking), and I don't see me getting a pay rise/or even more hours if I choose to take on the stress of converting our network to vanilla all on my own. I do like the idea of going vanilla, as I like a challenge, enjoy learning new things, and I like to be able to tinker (which I can't really do with CC3 - I imagine CC4 is locked down about the same, if not more?!). The trouble is, the school doesn't care what is going on in the background, they just want the computers to work - which is fair enough, anybody who works at a school is likely to already have far too much on their plate. I know it seems like a defeatist attitude but I will probably reluctantly walk into CC4 world because at least then I don't have all the responsibility on my back. Perhaps if they were to add a bit more to my bag of peanuts I would change my mind..

My first time voting - SO excited! Although, that might be a slight exaggeration...

Just slipped back into Ultima online - on the free shard UOgamers (uogamers.com) - All the mmorpg-ey goodness you'll ever need in classic isometric bliss!

Hehehe.. Gotta say i've wished for a star powerup many a time whilst being stuck in heavy traffic

I'm not sure that is the trouble, as it seems that NO registry fragment will be applied, for instance I tested another setting; [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard] "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="0" "KeyboardDelay"="1" "KeyboardSpeed"="32" Just to see if maybe it would only change entries that are already present on the machine as default. I have added that reg frag, and the one for my screensaver into a custom package (where I took a before snapshot, then manually added the settings, and then took an after snapshot) - then I attempted to allocate that package to my machine. On a restart I can see the package being applied, but no registry changes are reflected once I am logged on. If I take either of these two registry fragments and click > add to registry, then they get added. The only screensaver settings I have set within the RMMC is the screensaver to use, and the time it should be activated by. It shouldn't even matter which screensaver I have selected, as the individual settings of the screensaver are held within the registry of the machine itself, and can not be changed through the RMMC (to the best of my knowledge). I can't see why the registry settings were not recorded when I made my package. The application wizard has produced a bunch of files, including a '.reg' , but on looking at this it doesn't seem to contain any of the changes I made during my before/after snapshop.. so I really don't understand what it has done!

Thanks for the input all. Seems like I might give the company a ring on Wednesday (not in tommorow! Hurrah!).

It acts as the backup power supply for our main server/sims server so I guess it is fairly critical. As far as I know it is out of warranty, I think it's a good 3/4 years old though I've only been here since Jan so I can't be sure.

No, I bought the UPS from globe microsystems, which was the supplier they recommended..

Don't worry, I asked for honest opinions

See now that's what my support team said, which does justify buying a whole new unit I guess? They are schools IT systems support (SITSS) linked with Hertfordshire council.