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I'll second this one if you are looking for a Windows solution. Installation was a snap and upgrading is basically running the setup file for the newer version which usually takes 5 minutes since it doesn't have to re-ask you for settings information. Usually you don't even have to restart the server, though I did get asked to restart one time for some reason. The free version limits you to 10 sensors though. http://www.paessler.com/prtg/

Just as an FYI, if you take/change ownership of a file or folder, I don't believe it changes the creator/owner permission values to the new owner.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I found it while searching and was thinking about this. I have a vbscript that lets you remotely shutdown computers in an OU or by an IP range if not logged onto, but you just schedule it to run at a specific time and it wouldn't know if they are idle or not for 30 minutes... just whether they are logged in or not at that specific time the script is run. Couldn't you run winexit.scr or SS Ops or another screensaver as the DEFAULT profile so it runs when no one is logged on and then configure it to shutdown? The only downside is that if anyone's first logon is on that machine it would pull those Default user settings over to their account, so you'd want to change their screen saver settings.

I agree. It's annoying that they took away the software installation informational messages by default. While the GP setting brings this back, it also shows a little more information than most users would need to see.

You could also try the Samsung UPD as it works with other manufacturers' printers. It's lighter than HPs (which are so full of bloat it's scary) and probably much less buggy.

Good question. If the BIOS option doesn't work out, you can try loading MSCONFIG and on the Boot tab click "advanced options..." and uncheck the maximum memory value if it is set.

Your guess would be mine as well. Does your video card have a certain amount of shared memory set? You may also want to check for a Software Memory Hole Remapping option in the advanced chipset settings on the BIOS and try to enable/disable that.

Thanks for the information on locking down libraries. For our faculty & staff, we don't currently plan on restricting their ability to customize, but we did want to be able to do some customizing ourselves. As AngryTechnician indicated, Microsoft's official way is to customize and replace the .library-ms XML files, but that overwrites any customizations already made to a library. What we ended up doing is using a run-once login script to run some commands using a command-line utility I was able to find (I found a couple of them, actually) that removed the Public folders from the default libraries and also added some folders that we create on our employee's local disks for their personal music, pictures, etc. to the default libraries (we tend to dissuade them from putting non-school related, personal media on the network). The downside was that the two utilities were just source code samples from Microsoft so I had to make them and then figure them out myself since there was virtually no documentation: Shell Library Command Line Source: Shell Library Command Line Sample (Windows) Shell Libraries Utility Source (select native APIs version): Shell Libraries | Windows 7 Online Training | Learn | Channel 9 I also compiled them with some explanation here for convenience (links at end of article) Hope this is useful. I'm glad I found these forums, though, as it looks like a lot of valuable information gets tossed around.

We used to use ScriptLogic, but now we do it with Group Policy Preferences by User security group (no machine loopback). For students, we use GPP to set the default printer based on the location of the machine or cart, which is set by using item-level targeting on the OU of the machine (created some sub OUs by location to separate them out).