AngryTechnician

Might I suggest editing out the links so as not to lend PageRank to these crafty barstewards?

In combination with the above: robocopy /e /maxlad:1 c:\sourcefolder c:\destfolder Robocopy is included from Vista onwards, for XP you can download it as part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

There's a saying amongst pilots for dismissing criticism of even the bumpiest landings. "Any landing you walk away from is a good one."

D or E series? The E series have a couple of stands especially designed for them, though they aren't cheap: Dell E-Series Basic Monitor Stand - Kit Dell E-Series Flat Panel Monitor Stand - Kit Alternatively this should fit and has a slide out tray for undocking: Targus Universal Monitor Stand Monitor Accs PA235E: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

Fixed that for you. The tip for Windows Update is a good one; though I never tried it for my former 2600s, I use it all the time now. There was once a time when WU drivers were a pile of pants, but these days I actually look there first and only resort to a driver from HP if WU doesn't have one. The only printers I have problems with right now are using drivers from the HP website.

Which end has the Windows 7 machine? Yours? Theirs? Both?

Are the services you've listed the ONLY ones running in that instance of svchost? Might be worth checking using Process Explorer, and if there are any third-party services running in the same instance, start investigating there.

There are a few threads about this model on here, largely because a lot of people have these sorts of problems with it (myself included): HP 2600n http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/61879-hp-2600-wont-work-network.html?highlight=Laserjet+2600 http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008/21198-laserjet-2600-windows-2008-a.html?highlight=Laserjet+2600 In my opinion, it's one of the worst network printers ever made.

Is this when running or installing?

Thought Police, of course.

Do you have any minidump or memory.dmp files to look at? Might give you more info on what's crashing.

The way I see it, this puts you in a pretty comfortable position with regards to job hunting. If the school does value you (even if not enough to pay you more) then your position should be pretty safe and you can take your time to find/wait for a job that really suits you. At the same time, you've been upfront about looking so no-one can throw a wobbly when the time does come (which my former head did because I hadn't told him I was looking).

The tragedy is that Capita know these lessons by heart. A decent supplier would have made those sorts of recommendations up front to help the client avoid these problems (I have dealt with a supplier recently who did just this). Somehow I doubt Capita bothered, especially since it's not in their interest to keep costs down and, as GrumbleDook said, they are very good at winning these sorts of contracts despite their track record at delivering.

Presumably you can also add this in to the Property table using a transform. Haven't tried it since I used the alternative method given here, but it should work just fine.

A lot more detail on this story can be found here: The report on birmingham.gov.uk is published | Podnosh Notably, the council's own (long and refreshingly frank) report on the website denies the £2.8m figure was purely website costs (page 22): This figure was apparently for the entire "Web CMS" project which also seems to cover the council intranet and web apps platform, and includes hardware & infrastructure costs (see page 7). However, the £2.8m figure wasn't even final - it actually ballooned further to £3.033m (page 28). The council does admit on page 29 that that "Overall, it is generally believed that BCC overpaid for this project." but in the same breath admits "The authors of this Report have no detailed evidence of costs and are therefore unable to make definitive statements." So basically, "the website didn't cost £2.8m because that was spent on other things too, it actually cost £3m but we don't know what it was spent on." Clear?

It also broke far more often in my experience. We would generally have to un-bork about 1 laptop per month with XP due to Offline Files, but after switching to Vista we only had 1 down in 2 years. I think the trade-off was worth it.

In my last school, I stuck those signs up.

That was amazing. Consider it stolen!

I'm glad this thread is still alive or I would have missed it due to only skim-reading the forums these last few days. Getting to the offline files cache is actually quite simple once you know how, though it was easier in Vista than it is in 7. First off, you'll need either your Windows 7 setup disc or something like ERD Commander. If you're using whole-drive encryption with BitLocker (or something else), then you'll need to use whatever tools are available to you to decrypt the volume first. I don't use BitLocker precisely because it makes this sort of data recovery far more inconvenient than the protection is worth, so I can't help you with that step. Reboot your machine into whichever of the above you have, and launch a command prompt. To launch a command prompt from the Windows setup disc, wait until you're in the GUI and then hit Shift+F10 cd to D:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace It's D:\ and not C:\ because C: will have been assigned to the normally-hidden BitLocker partition while you're in this mode. This folder is well protected, with only the SYSTEM account having access. What's more, when Windows 7 is running, you cant access this folder or its content even if you use something like psexec -s cmd to run a command prompt under the SYSTEM account (and even if you stop the Offline Files service first). This is why we're using a separate environment. Now simply run dir You should see a list of directories corresponding to servers the machine has synchronised from. cd into one of them and you'll see share names. From there, you can cd to whatever folder is synchronised. Now, if you have any sense whatsoever you will have configured Windows to encrypt the offline files cache (which is what I do instead of using BitLocker), so even though you can see these files as SYSTEM, you can't access them directly because they are encrypted with the user's EFS certificate. The first step to having the files themselves is to use robocopy with the /EFSRAW switch to copy whatever you need to a folder elsewhere on the disc. Once you have all the files you need, reboot into Windows proper and find the folder you copied stuff to. You still won't have immediate access to the files because they are still encrypted with the user's EFS certificate, so you'll need to make these files available to the user (or steal their EFS certificate and load into into your own certificate store) and have them copy them back to wherever they are needed. You're welcome. AT's final thought: If the Offline Files cache has shafted itself for some reason, none of the above may work. You're on your own.

It's not really "Flash on the iPad" though - they're talking about the use of the converter within Flash CS5 to create iOS apps. As the PC World article points out, native Flash content on the web is still out, at least until Jobs u-turns on that too.

OK, I think I've worked out what was happening. I am installing remotely, using System Center Essentials, which deploys the software through WSUS. I did already know about the serial not being installed by default, and so am using the .mst transform listed on this thread. When I examined the problem machines, I found that ActivMgr.exe and ActivControl2.exe were already running under the SYSTEM account. My guess would be that the .msi launches these programs automatically as part of the install, and since the install was a remote deployment, it was running under the SYSTEM account. Since the installer does not reboot at the end (and apparently the computers haven't been rebooted in over a week for any other reason), those processes stay running and interfere when the first user logs on. We'll see whether that guess is accurate or not by seeing if the problem recurs anytime soon.

Really? I've just downloaded the latest driver from ActivDriver & Firmware Upgrades - Promethean Planet, and this is what I see when I run it: I've installed all the machines with the option selected, and I know one of them works, on serial, with this driver (though I can't work out why this one works and the others do not). These machines have definitely not had any other version of ActivDriver on them since they were reformatted with Windows 7. I am going over to one shortly to check the process list, but I have already confirmed using both Task Manager and psloggedon that only a single user is logged on at the workstation.

All of our classroom machines were upgraded to Windows 7 this summer, and I deployed the ActivDriver 5.5.37.4 to them. Unfortunately, almost all of the computers show the following popup at logon: "Other users on this computer are already using the ActivBoard or ActivHub. It is recommended they logout first." Subsequently, the ActivDriver icon does not appear in the system tray and interactivity is not available. I have found KB306228 which tells me to ensure no other users are logged on using Fast User Switching, however we are seeing this message even when only one user is logged on. The machines are all connected via Serial, and the Serial components of the driver are installed. We are using Windows 7 x86. The users do not have administrator rights on the machine, but administrator accounts experience the same problem anyway. Any suggestions gratefully received!

Even if you do get it working, we found the driver had a nasty habit of crashing the spooler service every few days. You might be able to protect your other printers by using driver isolation, but for us it wasn't worth the hassle.

Running show config will let you see all the configuration entries on the switch. Some are a bit cryptic, so Google will be your friend in deciphering it.