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Sophos AV can report the 2Simiple software as .exe's as a virus, supose other AVs might do the same

We leased PC for a good few years and found it nothing but trouble and a lot of hard work, at the end of the lease the companyes (and the companyes changed hands every other week) want the equipment back as if brand new, I.e no stickers or marks of any kind after 3 years in a school..... and if the kit didnt pass there inspection you got a huge fine. Thats just experance as the person who spent all his time cleaning them.

I found a until on the web that converts a .reg file to an .adm template, I belive it was called reg2adm ort something like, seamed to work fine.

I use a BlackBerry, it deletes random appointments if if Im daring enough to edit an appoint it gets repeated 5 times per edit, My paper diary never did that, and still worked when I droped it which why I now have the latest model of BB:D

Think we should wait until the service pack

You need to get the correct DOS(?) drivers for the network card on the desktops, herd Univeral Network boot disk (or something like is good)

I though the next intel chip had an inbult psychic chip?

Thanks thats excatly what I tought but management where tring to say different

Just checking I thinking the right things If a user logs on to the domain on thier laptop the domain policys are applied If then then go home and log on to the laptop using the cached user, the same policy is applied correct? (so if the schools proxy was set in the policy when they went home, it would still look for the schools proxy) Thanks

Cheers, I was looking along the right lines with the registry, but got distracted and the curry last night hasn't helped.

My Google skills have improved in the last ten minutes, found the answer! Option Explicit Dim objShell set objShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") '---------------------------------------------------------------- ' Don't edit above here ' ' Below is an example of associating PDF files with AcroRd32.exe ' You can change this to whatever you need, and just ' copy and paste the line over again to add more associations. '----------------------------------------------------------------- addFileAssociation ".wmv", "wmplayer.exe" '------------------------- ' Don't edit below here '------------------------- Sub addFileAssociation( fileExt, whichApp ) If ( Left(fileExt, 1) <> "." ) Then fileExt = "." & fileExt End If objShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\" & fileExt & "\Application", whichApp End Sub

HI I need a script or a way to change the file association for .wmv files to Windows media player, something automatic that works though GP or start up script, tryed looking at Ftype but couldn't get it right. Cheers

Sorry I was under the impression it was just the wireless setting disabling, and not including the BIOS password, my mistake Thanks Red I think the laptops are rebranded Samsungs

Thank you Valentine that is most intresting and something I will look into. Its all onboard wireless card (haven't had the laptops apart yet).

For reasons I dont want to go into can't list the Make. They have the Intel Pro set on them, but on a sample have taken that off use the windows Zero config same effect.

Yep suppliers have so far, Blamed the BIOS battery - but as the times + dates not changing dropped that reason Blamed the power packs and have replaced some, made no difference. next target is the laptop trollies, but as they are not all in trollies this one doesn;t hold water either

Has anyone had issue with the wirless getting disabled in the BIOS on new laptops. Will be enabled one day disabled the next. Definatlly not a kids or users as happening at a number of different sites, no firumware up dates available as laptops are pritty new.

Every 3 weeks my server falls over and I have to do a hard reset the event log is full of "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty." Any ideas - I;ve already done a few reg changes I found on google, everything looks fine then the server fall over Its not a disk issue and the server is less that 3 months old

Brill - I think you have gotten to the bottom of the problems with my missing PCs. Cheers

Cheers that pritty much matchs my thoughs.

Is it a good wroth putting wuauctl /detectnow as a startup script for all the computers in my domain, I have a large number that never seam to want to connect to the WSUS server dispite clientdiag reporting all ok?

I had a similar problem a while ago, turned out that the setting for primary and secondary DNS servers was wrong on the PC

One policy for all the software, which is why is so odd that this one package thats not installing or even tring to.

Its only a primary school so not to worried about copyright etc.

I don't the school do (they've got a bit Mac mad, whythis means I have to put Itunes on PCs beats me). But The school asks.....