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no sorry just bought a job lot of second hand ones in the end mate, sorry

thank you, its nice to have somewhere to start.

Anything guys?

hi, im a tecky apprentice at a secondary school (2nd year so i know my way around a system lol ) i replaced the charging "port" on my dads laptop two weeks ago and since he has been complaining of it turning itself off. i looked at it this morning and it looked to me, at first, a static on the board problem like some our acer's here and so i set about trying to destafiy the board and no luck. Any ideas? or could it be damage done by myself when when changing the charge terminal? it was a like for like replacement, not a bodge jog haha Thanks guys

thats fine you were a big help.

thats brilliant, got it! thanks for that mate, been a real help.

for security reasons students aren't able to access C:/

thanks but still no luck, bit of background: this program was installed via a active directory GPO and the students access it via redirected shorcut through a student profile layout. it is installed to the C:/ on all the relevant computers and works fine on an admin profile but the eroor occurs when trying to use the student accounts.

hi, i work in a school in coventry, we run XP across the network. im trying to install StarSpell 2.2 from Fisher-Marriot software, i have modified permissions to have full control for everyone using this software's database, but here is the problem; when a student try's to run this software they get: Run-time error '3050': Could not lock file you ok this message and it closes the software, dead. any ideas? thanks guys

we have just 1 ts-server we dont use a ts farm or session broker service. yes the policy is to end them after 2 days both idle and disconnected sessions.

Hi, I work in a school and we are having complaints from some teachers about if they lose power, internet connection... etc for any reason are forced to disconnect they lose their session, as in when they login back in after getting running againit tsrats a new session instead on reconnecting their last session. We have a GPO in our active directory set up to combat this problem and all our teachers are still losing their sessions when the scenario arises. any ideas? Thanks in advance.

in response to "extracting" the password from the children unfortunately we dont know the kid in question but if would be hilarious to scare the living sh*t out of them in front of the head and his parents.. oh if only... thanks again

youve all been a great help, thanks and fair play to hightower and a thank you to losojos for quashing it before it got out of hand. some people.. Thanks guys

hi thanks everyone so far, UPDATE: The HDD is a Hitachi Travelstar 5K160

its an acer aspire 3690. it is prior to OS loading as the OS is stored on the HDD, is it not? as soon as it clears the Acer "powering on" screen it demands the HDD password.

no its a HDD password, we just like to know if there is any software or method out there to clear the HDD pass. thanks but it is not a bios password.

no as in it is password protected so we can not use the laptop until it is cleared. any ideas??

hi, i work in a school and we have about 20 laptop hdd's that have been password protected by our "genius" kids and we were wondering how you guys clear the password so they can be used as spares in the future. thanks guys