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I don't think so. When I looked I could either run a task on login or at a scheduled time but I couldn't see how to schedule it between two set times. Andrew

Hi. Firstly, I'm not a vbs coder so if this is blindingly simple then I apologize in advance I'm looking to add to my students simple vbs login script so that I can run an .exe file but only if the time is between 08:00 and 15:40. So basically if time >= 08:00 or time <=15:40 then run myfile.exe else end Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Andrew

Exactly the same here. Ours are short term loan library books and looked after in the library. The only thing they have on them is the minimal install of the OS (Win8) hooked up to the wifi with internet disabled, AB Tutor Control client installed and a RDP shortcut to the student TS server the only icon on the desktop. Andrew

Staff 2010 Student 2003 Scheduled to merge servers into one new 2013 box in August Wiltshire

All our PC's are labelled externally with the asset number using RS sticky labels. We also use BGInfo on every desktop which displays PC Name, Asset Number, Serial Number, Username, Login time and OS version (still a few XP machines left...) as the wallpaper. Teachers or students tend to just report the asset number (1234) if a job is raised, we use GLPI to keep track of whats where from that point forward.

Open a command prompt in Administrator Mode, run "slui.exe 3" and then enter your MAK key? I would suspect it's looking at your KMS server for it's licensing and can't find it. Andrew

I've learned from bitter experience that trying to share a policy with Win Xp and Win 7 just doesn't work, what works on one breaks the other. Forgive the egg sucking lesson but you need to create two WMI filters for your GPO's, XP Only and Win7 Only to stop cross pollution of settings XP Only Namespace: root\CIMv2 Query: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like "5.1%" and ProductType = "1" Win7 Only Namespace: root\CIMv2 Query: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like "6.1%" and ProductType = "1" Glad you got it sorted though

Set these two keys via a GPO to redirect the Start Menu? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Value name Programs Value type REG_EXPAND_SZ Value data \\server\share\Start Menu\Programs Value name Start Menu Value type REG_EXPAND_SZ Value data \\server\share\Start Menu Andrew

Mrs. Krabappel: Class, please! If you don’t learn Roman numerals, you’ll never know the years certain motion pictures were copyrighted.

I inherited a Laserbit LB-ODU-AC-1/230/TP when I joined here in 2009. To be fair, at the time it was about the only bit of kit in the entire school that worked so I took it for granted. To this day, it's never missed a packet, never failed for fog, snow, torrential rain, plague of frogs etc and it's performance is excellent, just like having a 100mb wired connection. The distance is about 250m between the two receivers. Andrew PS - I am well aware that as soon as I hit send, it will catch fire, cut the roof off a passing bus and bring down a plane full of orphans on to a nearby hospital....

RANT - Honda Jazz - Whoever decided you could access the front lights through a flap in the underside of the mudguard needs shooting... /RANT

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From the Windows 7 Gotcha Thread, this explains it nicely When viewing redirected folders share you may see many "My Documents" When Windows sets up a new redirected My Documents it creates a hidden desktop.ini file which means that when you browse the share/location from Windows you may see a huge amount of folders called "My Documents"/"Documents" rather then the folder name it should be (e.g. \\server\share\username as the path could look like \\server\share\documents) The folders are correctly named but when Windows sees the existance of the hidden desktop.ini in each directory it displays the folder as "My Documents"/"Documents" rather then the real folder name. This can happen with any special folder I believe such as Favourites. The solution: Remove the desktop.ini file in each my docs redirected folder. This can be done with script or using Group Policy Preferences. You can also redirect to a sub folder which hides the issue (e.g. redirect to \\server\share\username\documents\) --------------------- Personally, I still have a mix of Win XP/7 machines and traditionally my my documents redirects tot he root so I run a simple batch file overnight to delete all the desktop.ini files from the user areas. Not really a fix but at least first thing int he morning all the folder names are correct.... attrib -h -s t:\2010\desktop.ini /s del t:\2010\desktop.ini /s attrib -h -s t:\2011\desktop.ini /s del t:\2011\desktop.ini /s attrib -h -s t:\2012\desktop.ini /s del t:\2012\desktop.ini /s Andrew

In the GPO set Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System and set Verbose vs normal status messages to enabled?

This is the section from my file if it's any help Andrew en-GB en-GB en-US en-GB en-GB

We had a completely black screen, some had the start button showing in the bottom left hand corner (we use a third party start menu rather than the Win7 start menu). CTRL-ALT-DEL, LOGOFF would return the screen to the usual login screen, then a second login by the same person would work without a problem. From what I saw when I looked into it, it wasn't a local profile issue. Out of interest, do you have any hotfix's installed? I have 85 additional hotfix's installed on my Win7 PC's as well as all the released critical updates and Win7 runs sooooo much better with them installed. Andrew Andrew

Hi There is a hotfix for that The logon process stops responding in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 That was exactly what was happening here and a roll-out of the hotfix in October to all our Win7 PC's has stopped the random black screen dead. Andrew

Another vote for PFSense 2.02. My BYOD student wifi network is built round it using some very cheap Buffalo access points, DD-WRT and some even cheaper hubs linked using spare fibre cabling dotted round the school (the BYOD network is only visible in open access IT labs, SFCR's and the Dining Hall). The captive portal works great and it hooks into active directory fairly easily using RADIUS and the web front end is easy to manage. There are several good video guides linked from their website. Andrew The price of 0.00p fits in nicely with the strategic planning budgets

Pretty much what everyone else has said. A veteran of about 10 OFSTED visits in a 20 year career (used to be in a failing organization before I got here so had them in every year) and have yet to be directly involved. OFSTED is a teachers/management procedure, so apart from spending the days before a visit making sure everything is working properly and sorting out whatever they need in their base room, the actual visit is a time to watch the cricket on Sky Go and resist the urge to make any system changes.... Been in this school for 4 years now and have still to have OFSTED pay a visit, last time was 2006 apparently Andrew

Thank you both for your replies, HKLM\Software\BrowserChoice - Enable=0 does exactly what I needed. Andrew

Got Windows 8 installed on a Samsung N102 notebook with a max screen res of 1024x600. Clearly someone decided to hard code the screen size requirements for the Browser Choice app as I keep getting the above error message. Does anyone know how to remove this pesky nag app without it having run first? Andrew

I had the same problem with a Samsung notebook. In the end I installed Classic Shell and down(up)graded the interface back to Windows 7 look and feel. Defeats the object if you wanted the metro interface, but Windows 8 is much faster on every notebook I've tested it on. Andrew http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/

Love the speed of the new OS, in a like for like benchmark between Windows 7 and Windows 8 on the same hardware it flies but and it's a very big but at the moment, absolutely hate the front end and it's a million new reg keys and gpo settings to learn before it goes out on the network. At present, 2013-14 will remain on Win7/O2K10 and 2014-15 may be Win8SP2/O2K1x Andrew

I've always run it from a network share, never had a problem with it and it's only one copy of the scratch.ini file you have to edit if you ever want to make global changes.

Because if they enter their own username and password into the login box it screws up my application blocker software I wrote as the game then runs in a different memory space than I'm scanning... Easier to kill the prompt than rewrite the software