tickmike

Thanks ric . could the fix be put on a floppy or a file that I could load onto each computer ? All the computers run on a network mainly for the internet and my use for updates etc...Is there any way I could do the lot at one go ?. I'm thinking about putting them on a domain ( we had a w2k server donated) then it would be a lot easier . but the problem is I do not know much about w2k server software if something goes wrong .

I was horrified when I went along to the charity run school I look after today and found that someone had P.A.T. tested all the IT equipment without asking my advice first.(strong word with the head needed !) Being a fully qualified Electrician I understand what can happen to sensitive electronic equipment . What the 'PAT' tester does is to apply Twice the operating voltage eg. for 240/250 volt.50 hz equipment so 500 V .DC. would be applied across :- say if you tested an IEC lead a.. 500V live to neutral conductor. b.. 500V live/neutral to earth . c.. current of about 20 amps from one end of the earth cable to the other eg. mains plug to IEC socket. You would also check to see if the mains plug fuse is of correct size, all terminals are tight,any damage to equipment or leads etc. When I worked in a research lab I looked after and I tested many electrical items and the major problem was poor earths eg. the earth lead from the mains lead connected to the equipment chassis strait on to a painted surface. Items with surge suppressors in can be damaged. Test the leads only.

Hello all. My first help post so be gentle with me !. Some of the little darlings have been down loading a web page onto the desk top. To remove it I have right click on the desk top >Properties >web>web page > delete.. That gets rid of it from the desk top but I can never get rid of the page when you boot up the computer you can still see the particular page for a few seconds. How do I stop it doing this ?. is there a cache for this page or is it a picture file ?. W2k, Individual computers.not on a domain. Regards.Michael.

Hello all. Well I finally got around to registering, It was not as painful as I thought!. A bit about me. I worked as a Research Scientist on the railways for 28 years, Then ran our village shop for 11 years then sold it 2 years ago and now continuing building my own house / garage and a self catering holiday flat, that we hope to rent out during the season. For the last 8 years I have been involved with the local Charity Run school in my spare time and when my daughter went there I was the caretaker, health and safety rep, maintenance and gardener etc. as a parent at the school you do all this for free. The school was shut down by the local council 19 years ago with only 9 children there (they have about 40 now) and taken over by the parents almost strait away, the school buildings belong to the community, set up by a local gentry 200 years ago on a trust. The parents have to raise all of the funds to run the school, which has 3 teachers. Being interested in electronics / computers etc. I could see the school had only 3 very old computers (8 years ago I think one was a 'bbc' and two 386's). So we were running the local shop at the time and I started asking my customers if they had any old computers and a villager owned one of the local Skip hire firms, so I went along to his yard and recovered some more old computers. Did all these up and learnt myself about computing. When I set these old 486's up in school they were delighted. Two years ago I got one of the local firms to donate 25 redundant pc's (Compaq Deskpro's). What a surprise when I went along to collect them, they supplied base unit, crt monitors, keyboards and mouse with all the leads the full kit and they had all been serviced . Being from a firm they had no cd-rom drives so I got one of my customers at my shop to sponsor an up grading of them, so I fitted cd-rom drives and lot more ram. This anonymous Donor spent thousands of pounds on the school during the time I was there as a parent. I still Volunteer to look after the school computers even now my daughter has moved on to a senior school in the nearby city (and its one of the I. T staff there that I have to thank for telling me about this site just after it started up last year. ). I have set the computers up on a network (and I had to learn myself about that first!) and they only have ISDN (64kbps)at the school (I hope to get them on broadband soon) They are set up as individual workstations with w2k on them at the moment, but I had a HP Netserver donated with w2k server on it (I have been working out how that all works) and will get around putting the school on a domain one day, because looking after all the workstations, just doing the updates on the AV / anti spy ware/malware etc.. Is a major job, which I do on a Saturday afternoon. I'm also building a 'smoothwall' box but that will not talk to the BT Highway ISDN TA. Well the school are very pleased with all this effort I have put in (it must be thousands of hours of work and I have raised thousands of pounds for the school) and the Ofsted inspectors gave me a personal thank you for all my work setting up the network for the school at a cost of £0.) I could write a book about all this. By the way I still look out for any free items for the school network. I'm brain dead now. Bye. Michael.

Hello All. I just wanted to send a very BIG Thank you to Dos_Box for setting up this site now we have gone over 1000 members, And not forgetting all of you that make this site tick in the back ground. Well Done and A big thank you also from all the people not only the professionals but all the amateur's like myself around the world that get very good free advice by just reading the forums, I have learnt allot and have used that knowledge to solve problems at the small school I look after.. Its a great site may it continue to a 1,000,000. and on and on.. Regards Michael. This being my first post ever to a forum it was not too bad !. But I'm going to lie down now !.