DavR

Wow, I didn't know anyone tipped Dominos drivers? I feel like such a tight sod now.

My last job was in the LA schools IT team for a South London council.... we still had probably about a hundred XP devices running in our supported schools. Mostly ones and twos running dumb stuff like entry systems or CCTV that was a pain to shift, but yeah, a couple of schools with significant XP usage who just kept pleading poverty every time we pushed the issue! No XP in my new place as far as I know, touch wood....

Have you tried turning off Touch Gestures? Could be it's trying to interpret your commands as a gesture, when all you want is to draw a line or write hello.... Multitouch gestures behave unexpectedly on your SMART Board 6052i interactive display (170082) - SMART Technologies

Sam, I'd uninstall the previous XNA Frameworks and just stick with the latest. As I understand it, you only need the latest to run Kodu, having the lot only complicates matters really.

Strange, once I got past the difference between home page and start tabs I've never had a problem with Chrome policies. Must say I've stuck to startup tabs and not done much with the Home button though. Have you checked the group policy results on the client to make sure the policy is definitely applying as you expect? (from a command prompt, type rsop and enter for the current local policy). Are you using the latest Chrome MSI and policy templates? They change the policy settings quite a lot, you'll need chrome and the template to be the same vintage.

There are so many ways a startup script can fail... three things I would do to investigate: 1. On the failing workstation, generate resultant set of policy (Commmand prompt, then type rsop, enter). This will tell you whether your policy is applying correctly - look under computer config and startup scripts for your script, it should have the last run time next to it. If that's blank, your script's not running. 2. If the script is definitely running, monitor it using something like pslist from another machine, to maybe see what part of the script it failing (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896682.aspx). Pslist \\workstation -s -t is my favourite, as it give you a real time parent-child process tree. 3. If you're calling an MSI, you can look in Event Viewer for messages logged by Windows Installer under Applications. Beyond that, it's down to some difference between a user environment and the System user environment, those are less easy to pin down...

Mac's stomp all over your Windows permission in Homeshare if you let them, adding denies all over the place. What I've done in the past is change the permissions on the Windows share containing your home directories to Everyone Read + Change, but NOT Full Control. Read + Change allows the users to save and modify documents, but removing Full Control means that Mac can't change your permissions under that users credentials.

I think version 10 of the Smart software allowed you to connect non-Smart products without a licensing warning. Or, you could try a USB to VGA adapter, that might not detect as an interactive screen. Emphasis on the might though!

What board have you got, and what version of the software? As I recall, things like this would happen on newer Smart displays (post Smart E70) when using older software (pre version 14). We tried to stick to version Smart Notebook 11.4 for ages to avoid licensing difficulties inherent with newer version, and even with a separate updated driver pack we still had trouble. Only solution was to go to the newer software, and deal with the licensing issue.

Every time I've had problems with Kodu, it's usually been a case of updating the program itself to the latest version, or updating XNA Framework to the latest.... XNA Framework updates are often very badly advertised, for a while they were listing the specs for one version of Kodu as requiring v3, when really it needed v4, so hunt and make sure that's up to date.

Google Chrome does use home page in the same way that IE or Firefox does, "Home page" is just the page it goes to when you press the "home" button. The page that opens when you open the browser is theStartup Page You need to go into your GPO and set the options under Google/Google Chrome/Startup to Action on statup > Open a list of URLs.