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I can see the two trolleys at the bottom and one balanced across, but what's blokey standing on? Surely the seat on the top shopping trolley wouldn't hold him. Is there another stool or something in the basket too?!!

Charge up the battery in an identical laptop (or pinch a charged battery from another one) and try turning on without the power supply attached. If it works without the PSU but with a charged battery, they've probably snapped the connection pin on the motherboard, or the whole unit has broken lose from its solder points.

I know you've stated DNS is running fine on the servers, but have you double checked the IPs being dished out to the XP clients? Can't find the KB article but I know we were having massive login time issues till I spotted DNS had switched round so the primary DNS was our proxy and not our PDC - switching it back took the time down by 90% at least.

I have a Windows 3.11 'laptop' that works perfectly wedged under my desk, wonder if I can convince them it's my day to day one

Most days, Derby -> middle of nowhere, about 17 miles but mostly on A roads - 30 minutes or less out of rush hour, up to an hour in it. Few days a week it's Barnsley -> same middle of nowhere which is about 50 miles, less than an hour on a good run, up to 2 in rubbish motorway traffic.

I've been looking at Cameyo at the moment - not sure if you could get something going along the lines you want using it? Cameyo | Free Application Virtualization Going to try it for some non essential apps etc here and see what happens once the initial start of term panic is over!

A+ for copy and paste. F for accreditation. Fast Fix - The Daily WTF

I was using Royal TS, then came across the free version of Remote Desktop Manager - can't remember what it was that niggled me about this, but I went on to use mRemote which does an even better job - or at least, whatever it was that was bothering me, doesn't now! http://www.mremote.org

Might be a silly observation, but isn't it better it stays there unless you're doing multiple copies by week etc - otherwise when they come and say "I deleted X from my laptop last week, can you get it back?" it will have been nuked by the mirroring process...

Had major issues here this morning with copies that had grabbed 5418 then played up so much they couldn't get to 5419. Fingers crossed it's settling now - the file linked in the thread is (I assume) the same tool offered by Eset in their knowledgebase if you want to get it from an official source. ESET Knowledgebase - Virus Signature Database Update 5418 may cause an "ekrn.exe" error or other issues

I've been very tempted by this but can't really justify it when I still have Worms 2/Armaggedon kicking round!! If you're a fan of the old school Worms games but short of cash, the current (free) version of Hedgewars is shaping up very nicely - killed a lot of time with it over the holidays. Hedgewars Looking at rolling it out to the IT rooms for lunchtimes

Sounds like a variant on one of the old P2P/autorun viruses that presented itself as a folder full of keygens? If it's one of the rootkit style ones it will have neatly disappeared under the radar - depends on what technical level your newsletter is aimed at but using a rootkit scanner/remover app may be beyond them and a backup and format may be the only solution for a home user. How about suggesting that they upload the keygen app to virustotal/jotti.org and then go on to look for a removal kit on the basis of what the scanners pick up?

Time to cross my fingers for mine turning up before the hols then!

We have 2 IT rooms full of the AL1716 (4:3 hard glass 17" model) and they've been no trouble at all - also survived direct hits from footballs and various other items. Look nice in terms of both aesthetics and image quality.

I was just about to add a batch file version then scrolled to the end of the thread - any chance of posting your finished/working script? Looks like a very handy tool for tidying up at the end of term