kili

Well done srochford .This is the way I do it directly on the server but I don't bother with cookies as these are dealt with by GPO not copying back IE temp files etc.. I do delete the following though *.exe *.cmd *.bat *.wmv and a whole host of other extensions I have one script with a list of students folders which checks every 15 minutes to deal with repeat offenders who copy exe's and mp3's to their home folder. Just one thing I would add to the script and thats the following cd /d d: ( or whatever drive the script started from) This one from experience when Microsoft made changes to the cmd program and a windows server update had my script on completing the sweep of students folders happily jumped from the d: drive to c:\windows\system and started to delete all the exe's. So make sure you return the script to the relevant drive with cd /d d: ( or whatever your drive letter is) and put in an exit command to close the session exit ( and the exit cmd to close the cmd session) Kili

Go to start -run and type in msconfig this will load a small program - select the startup tab and you can see the crap that is loading on startup. The rest is self explanatory Kili

Darren, you should have a dedicated account for sophos updating, the problem with using the domain administrator account as you'll find out sooner or later is that when you change the password for the domain administrator your sophos updating account stops working as you've forgotten to enter the changed password in the sophos client deployment console. Also your clients when deployed use the username and password that you deployed them with to do thier updates from the CID that you specified when you deployed to the client. So do your self a favour and create a dedicated sophos account with domain admin privileges and make sure the account is a member of the workstation admins account ( It probably already is as an administrator) other wise each time you change the password for the Domain Administrator your sophos clients will fail because their using the wrong password.

Ah.. common sense is always the first option. I'm with you on this one, you just cant stop everything no matter how hard you try. It's down to the teaching staff to deal with this one mate. Kili