Gimbow

Do you even get to the shut down dialog box or is it hanging on the desktop? Also, Are there any mapped drives that are trying to sync?

It all depends on how many labs we have per school. For a high School, we have 15-20 labs so the price for that site would be in the area of $15000. For a one to two lab school, the price is substantially cheaper. I am unsure of the exact price as I am not involved in the purchasing..

We here have has similar issues. Over the past school year we have replaced over 100 mice in our labs. Some of the steps we have taken have been to zip-tie the mice to the security loop on the back of the computer. This has slowed them down a bit but has not been overly successful. Does anyone else out there have any intuitive ways they secure their Peripherals?

Gatt, Awesome GPO. I am defiantly going to implement a few of these.

Here in VA we are using Netop. The version of the program we have been using is very buggy and their customer supports sucks. Their response is always "Update to the new version". A few of the problems we have with it are... Teachers complain constantly about clients not showing up or completely dropping off the teacher app at completly random times. A reinstall of the client is the only fix. It is slow and clunky when you get more then 30 computers going and has a tendency to lock up when you try to do things too quickly... Even with a fast computer. A few of the pros, It has just about every feature you would ever need, It has an intutiave interface and it has a pretty easy learning curve for end users. We use it in about 30-40 labs consisting of 30 computers each. I believe we paid in the area of $4000-$15000 per site for it so it is defiantly not cheap.. Hope this helps..