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OK, so after a bit of digging, the following reg key turns it off for everyone but I'm still looking for a HKCU way of doing it so staff can have it enabled and students have it disabled... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer DWORD - HideRunAsVerb : 1

I maintain two central start menus, one for staff and one for student. Upon login, a fastcopy script runs and syncs the correct menu to c:\start menu Finally, I use a reg key to redirect the start menu, works like a charm. Fast copy script (first line used in student gpo, second line used in staff gpo) c:\windows\FastCopy\FastCopy.exe /auto_close /open_window /cmd=sync "\\server\profiles\basic7\start menu" /to="c:\start menu" c:\windows\FastCopy\FastCopy.exe /auto_close /open_window /cmd=sync "\\server\profiles\staff7\start menu" /to="c:\start menu" Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key path Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Value name Start Menu Value type REG_EXPAND_SZ Value data c:\Start Menu Quick, nasty but works Andrew

Hi Sorry, can't see for looking today. Is there a way to remove the run as administrator right click menu, either via a registry key or a GPO? Thanks Andrew

Nagios and Cacti does the job here, as Zimmer said, lots of pretty graphs for senior management to see during my appraisal Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cacti® - The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution Andrew

The only other ones I can see off my list other than mentioned above is Movie Maker 2012 and KLite Codek Pack 7.xx

Had a couple of minutes as my curiosity got the better of me and found this Exchange 2003 and Activesync Configuration and Troubleshooting « Alan Hardisty's Blog – All Things IT Related May be of some help?

As reported by the others, the drive access is controlled by the scratch.ini file. You can extract Scratch and run it from a read only network share with the scratch.ini file in the same location. My scratch.ini file for example is as follows:- [Global] DeferUpdate=1 ShowConsole=0 DynamicConsole=0 ReduceCPUUsage=0 ReduceCPUInBackground=0 3ButtonMouse=0 1ButtonMouse=0 UseDirectSound=1 PriorityBoost=1 B3DXUsesOpenGL=1 CaseSensitiveFileMode=0 EnableAltF4Quit=0 Home=R:\ VisibleDrives=r:,q:,o:,e: ProxyServer=proxy.xxxxx.wilts.sch.uk ProxyPort=8080 Language=en For us, r: is the home drive, q and o are the student share areas and e: is any usb stick. Takes two minutes max to set it all up and get it working. Andrew

Happy to be corrected but I think iphones only work like that with Exchange 2007 and above....

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I went across about 10am Saturday morning and it was swinging quite alarmingly in the strong northerly wind esp at the highest bit.... The journey back about 2pm was very pleasant though and the views were stunning.

That quote is going on my CV

LOL, just seen your reply in the BETT thread, did I win the freebies prize from your Deputy Head? (just so I know if I have to try harder next year...) ;-)

I enjoyed BETT this year but was a bit disappointed with the layout, with several of the big zones in the middle it made some of the aisles round the outsides a bit like Hogwards staircases and they went to dead ends meaning lots of the smaller stands were a bit lost as people backtracked etc. While I don't advocate the roman road straight lines format, it was very hard to cover the show in a sweeping motion like you could do at Olympia. However, first year and all that, very impressive venue but was surprised how quiet Saturday was this year (maybe put-off by the DLR being closed) where-as Friday was heaving and at times slightly too overcrowded round the top end. If I'd wanted to buy a smartboard this year then I would have been in geek heaven, as for the rest of the show, a bit lacking in technology from previous shows but then maybe this year I wasn't really looking for anything specific. As for the traditional see what I could pick-up for the children, well I think I did OK. Good job I don't fly to BETT ;-)

+1 for mandatory profiles. With the desktop and start menu locked down to network shares, no access to styles, backgrounds etc, BGInfo controlling the wallpaper and redirected home directories there is no need for roaming profiles any more (well at my place anyway...)

Hi Starting to see several issues on specific websites we use that is fixed by turning compatibility mode on. Just wondering if anyone has set it on as the domain wide default and if there has been any gotcha's encountered along the way because of it? Got my finger hovered over the enable button on the GPO, just want to make 100% sure first... ;-) Cheers Andrew

Another vote for Scratch, plus Kodu is getting quite popular here, some of the stuff the Yr7-9's are producing is excellent. Not as zero cost as the others, but Lego NXT kits are a lot of fun

When I first rolled-out Windows 7 I was in the same situation, 98% of workstations would redirect to the network start menu perfectly, randomly a few wouldn't (never the same PC twice) and would just have the normal m$ start menu. Eventually I gave up and redirected the start menu to c:\start menu and run a batch file as part of the user login script to run a job with fastcopy to compare and copy the network share with the copy of C:\start menu (so users always get the latest menu plus staff logging in on student PC's get the right start menu etc.) Solved all our problems and never saw an incorrect start menu again. Never tracked down why, could have been server performance, GPO not working, I tried redirecting via GPO's and registry keys to no avail. Not helpful as a fix for you unfortunately, just to say you weren't alone... Andrew

I'm stuck with 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs to shift (From Bournemouth Echo)

Sounds like one of the numerous spooler bugs in Win7 SP1. I would start by installing most of these:- List of print related hotfixes post SP1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. - The troubleshooters and problem solvers... - Site Home - TechNet Blogs I have the following installed site wide and all my printer quirks disappeared. KB2769359-x86, KB2647753-v2-x86, KB2616332-x86, KB2616471-x86, KB2636963-v2-x86, KB2737353-v2-x86 Andrew

PowerPoint/Open Office and a VGA cable?

Thanks for the replies, surprised it's not built into the OS!! SYNACK, is this the client you mentioned? ConnectMe | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States) Cheers Andrew

Hi Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't have a Win8 phone to play with. Is there a decent (and/or free?) RDP client that can be installed on a Win8 phone to connect to M$ Terminal Server 2008 or is there one already built into the OS? TIA Andrew

OK, hands up, I'm a numpty... I had AutoAdminLogin=1 when it should be AutoAdminLogon=1 A fun filled waste of 2 hours this afternoon for a 10 second job I've done a hundred times before!!! Andrew

Hi Slowly going mad over this and prob doing something stupid. Setting up a Win7 laptop that is on the Domain to use AutoAdminLogin but I want it to login using a local user account and password. I've tried the DefaultUserName key as username, .\username and PCNAME\username and tried DefaultDomainName as PCNAME and also left blank but I can't find the combo to get it working. Can someone put me out of my misery please. Andrew

How exactly are they taking control of the PC? Taking over the mouse and keyboard? Might want to check for a tiny USB dongle and a small remote keyboard/mouse combo? One of my students tried that, spooked the teacher but the room was put in lockdown and one of the other students grassed them up infront of me (and I got to keep the keyboard, sits on my media PC at home these days...) EDIT: Just checked, it was a Rii Touch http://riiminikeyboards.com/