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I think from memory you can set it. Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Bluetooth Devices, Add and then follow the instructions

To answer my own question in-case anyone else ever needs to know, the latest version of explorer.exe is:- File version: 6.1.7601.22083 Date modified: 10/08/2012 and can be found here Non-topmost window appears above a topmost window when you click the Show Desktop button on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Andrew

Hi Ben I have a long batch file that installs over 70 hotfixes in this format:- wusa.exe "R:\_July 2012 Windows 7\7Hotfix\wmi\Windows6.1-KB2578159-x86.msu" /quiet /norestart I followed this article and have a login job scheduled to a particular user (patches) that runs the script with elevated rights Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create - Windows 7 Forums The final line of the batch file reboots the PC shutdown /f /r It's a bit of a fudge but it works. I use AB Tutor control so it's easy to mass login rooms and fire the script through user GPO. Andrew

Hi For anyone following this thread I finally found the solution and it turns out I'd missed an important hotfix during the build process... The logon process stops responding in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 This was exactly what was happening and a roll-out of the hotfix has thus far resolved the random login black screen. Onwards and upwards Andrew

Does the keyboard work instantly if you boot to the BIOS? If it does I would start by looking at the latest Windows 7 chipset drivers for the PC's in question even if you think they are already installed. Andrew

We use it here on all the Win7 PC's, it made the migration from XP to Win7 much easier while we ran a mixed environment, same look and feel regardless of the PC you login. So popular we kept it As all staff and student's have the same locked down settings, I just configured it in the basic image build and rolled it out from them. Most of the settings are in the HKCU settings or you can import a .xml file. It's also very happy with redirected start menus but for best performance make sure both "Pre-cache icons" and "Delay loading of icons" are OFF. I agree with the comments about moving forwards, but sometimes forwards doesn't always mean teachers can just login and go in front of a class of 30... Andrew

Hi Still trying to track this down, made a lot of progress by repairing the libraries back to defaults (I had tried several reg hacks to remove them in the original build) and now folder redirection errors I thought were cosmetic have disappeared. Just wondering if someone could confirm that this version of explorer.exe is the very latest available for Win7 SP1 32bit as I can't believe it's not been patched/hotfix'd somewhere for 18 months given just about every other Windows file has been updated since:- File version: 6.1.7601.17567 Date modified: 25/02/2011 05:30 Many thanks Andrew

Lowest spec Windows 7 PC's here are Dell Optiplex GX520's, 745's and 755's. All with 2gb RAM and 160Gb hard disks. Perfectly acceptable for staff rooms doing nothing but Hotmail, BBC sports website, office and registers, I wouldn't recommend doing Photoshop on them though... The remaining Dells will be retired Summer 2013 as student lab PC's get replaced on the usual 3 year cycle. Andrew

Have you tried to customize the libraries by any chance? You see a lot of redirected folder errors when the libraries are setup in a non standard way? Andrew

You can use the old ssmypics.scr from Windows XP and it works fine in Windows 7. We use two screen savers, one for not logged in (runs from c:) and a logged in screen saver (runs from the server). These are the keys I used in the build, pick out the keys of interest to customise it for your own preferences. Hope it helps someone Andrew Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="60" "ScreenSaveActive"="1" "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\ssmypics.scr" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "PowerOffActive"="0" "PowerOffTimeOut"="0" "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="0" "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="300" "ScreenSaveActive"="1" "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\ssmypics.scr" [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow] "ImageDirectory"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\config\\systemprofile\\My Documents\\My Pictures" "PaintInterval"=dword:00000000 "ChangeInterval"=dword:00001770 "DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000 "MaxScreenPercent"=dword:00000064 "DisableTransitions"=dword:00000001 "AllowStretching"=dword:00000000 "AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000000 "MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8 "MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000 "MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow] "ImageDirectory"="\\\\SERVERNAME\\profiles\\ScreenSaver" "PaintInterval"=dword:00000000 "ChangeInterval"=dword:00001770 "DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000 "MaxScreenPercent"=dword:00000064 "DisableTransitions"=dword:00000001 "AllowStretching"=dword:00000000 "AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000000 "MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8 "MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000 "MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8 [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow] "ImageDirectory"="c:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\config\\\\systemprofile\\\\my documents\\\\my pictures" "PaintInterval"=dword:00000000 "ChangeInterval"=dword:00001770 "DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000 "MaxScreenPercent"=dword:00000064 "DisableTransitions"=dword:00000001 "AllowStretching"=dword:00000000 "AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000000 "MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8 "MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000 "MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8

How many of the following (if any) hotfix's have you got installed? List of Network related hotfixes post SP1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - The troubleshooters and problem solvers... - Site Home - TechNet Blogs I would also install both of these to get the latest TCPIP stack Event ID 5719 and event ID 1129 may be logged when a non-Microsoft DHCP Relay Agent is used TCP SACK option is always set to "true" after you enable the TCP/IP Offloading feature in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Andrew

Hi No thankfully we missed out on that one, my PC's mostly shutdown at 10pm (after evening classes) and our scheduled scans don't happen until 5am (after the backups have finished) so by then Sophos had already pushed out the correct IDE's. As evening classes don't start until this Monday, hardly any PC's were on or being used when the bad IDE went live and fortunately not a single PC self destructed... Still trawling through GPO settings at the moment, have made a few tweaks and am now monitoring the situation. If I find the cure, I'll post it here. Andrew

Just as an update - It's not related to graphics drivers as one of my test PC's with the latest Intel drivers on it black screened this morning. Now starting to trawl through old GPO's and try and find a rogue setting in there (but I would have thought a wrong GPO would cause far more PC's to blank than the occasional random one) Days like this I wish I wasn't allergic to caffeine... Andrew

Hi Kenny_G Nope, no Solus here. Very early initial testing shows there is some mileage in the outdated graphics driver theory. I'll post back when I've run some more tests over the coming days. Andrew

Actually now you mention it, I didn't think about graphics card drivers. A quick check reveals the PC's are on 2009 drivers so I'll be testing the latest drivers for Intel, ATI and NVidia to see if it makes a difference. Thanks for the heads-up Andrew

Hi all I've rolled out Win7 to 400 PC's over the summer and all is well except for a very random issue where a domain user will login and get the dreaded black desktop with only the start button visible. CTRL, ALT, DEL, logout and login again fixes it. I see about 10 instances of this a day cross campus and there is nothing in any of the logs. Have installed a ton of hotfixes etc but to no avail. Not using the user folder redirection section in a GPO, but instead using redirection through the usershellfolders registry keys and although the shared desktop is on a network server it also happens on a couple of logins that run the desktop from c: with no other redirection. Any other ideas? If I get this fixed then maybe just maybe I can finally have a day off Cheers Andrew