Just because you have the password doesn't make it your personal login!

[EyeMWing]

Third day in a row I've had to reset settings on 9 machines because the users seem to think that their class login is their personal login. Flashy desktops, Windows themes, quicklaunch bar, custom icons.

Problem? These machines are WinXP ****HOME**** and as such, I cannot do a damn thing to administrate them other than to recreate things as they're supposed to be every time they get changed. Also, it seems that software can be installed on XP Home by non-admins or somthing, AOL was installed on half of them.

 

[minendo]

Adobe Go Back or PCRdist. Look into them.

 

[OutHouse]

English Motherfusker, Do you speak it!!!!!!

 

[Anubis]

you can stil,linstall things on XP pro in a limited acct. they do that here at school. you can just bypass it if you dont install to the C: drive. all teh comps here have at least 2 or 3 HDs/partitions. you can install all you wantto D: or E:

thos how i got opera, firebird and trillian on all the comps i use

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Citrix
English Motherfusker, Do you speak it!!!!!!

I understood exactly what he was talking about.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Citrix
English Motherfusker, Do you speak it!!!!!!

No. I'm in a public school. English skills don't exist here.

 

[Quixfire]

Write the the report now showing how much money the school save by not spending the extra $40 for XP Pro.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Quixfire
Write the the report now showing how much money the school save by not spending the extra $40 for XP Pro.

None? They don't buy XP Home - these machines were just purchased at the very beginning of XP before anyone knew how much Home sucked.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Anubis
you can stil,linstall things on XP pro in a limited acct. they do that here at school. you can just bypass it if you dont install to the C: drive. all teh comps here have at least 2 or 3 HDs/partitions. you can install all you wantto D: or E:

thos how i got opera, firebird and trillian on all the comps i use

MSI's and Installshield installers check for admin rights. Compressed files, of course, are different, and an administrator's worst nightmare.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

You shouldn't be using XP Home in a managed network environment. You set yourself up for this headache.

You can try pushing down some of these reghacks to make your job a little easier.

How are you re-imaging the machines? Manual/Ghost/PXE?

 

[ucdnam]

Yea, set them up with an image on a seperate partition, so if things get out of hand, just reimage it. Shouldn't take more than 20 min a machine. Also start putting up posters and talking to them directly. Most will stop when you actually spend time to tell them why it's not right. They probably don't know the hassle you put up with when they install the stuff.

 

[bsmithy]

corrupt the installershield installation

that'll take care of 90% of the proggies

you could also write a .bat file to restore setting like desktop and remove toolbars and add it to startup

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
You shouldn't be using XP Home in a managed network environment. You set yourself up for this headache.

You can try pushing down some of these reghacks to make your job a little easier.

How are you re-imaging the machines? Manual/Ghost/PXE?

At the moment, it's the manual go-around-and-redo-everything-by-hand method. EVERY DAY. And who said anything about a network? The incompetant moron that ordered these junkboxes (Celeron 1300's, WinXP Home, 128mb RAM, 20gb HDDs, CDROM) neglected to pay the $10 extra for a frickin NIC, but paid the $20 extra for 56k modems (WHY, GOD, WHY?)

Given a budget of $5k, I could make these decent machines. Maybe.

If only I knew who they were, I'd st@b them in the face. Maybe one day I'll manage to get my hands on the site license for XP Pro. As a student, however, my hands are tied.

I also can't speak to the idiots that are actually doing it, because I have a class of my own to attend that period and the instructor is largely computer illiterate

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
You shouldn't be using XP Home in a managed network environment. You set yourself up for this headache.

You can try pushing down some of these reghacks to make your job a little easier.

How are you re-imaging the machines? Manual/Ghost/PXE?

At the moment, it's the manual go-around-and-redo-everything-by-hand method. EVERY DAY. And who said anything about a network? The incompetant moron that ordered these junkboxes (Celeron 1300's, WinXP Home, 128mb RAM, 20gb HDDs, CDROM) neglected to pay the $10 extra for a frickin NIC, but paid the $20 extra for 56k modems (WHY, GOD, WHY?)

Given a budget of $5k, I could make these decent machines. Maybe.

If only I knew who they were, I'd st@b them in the face. Maybe one day I'll manage to get my hands on the site license for XP Pro. As a student, however, my hands are tied.

I also can't speak to the idiots that are actually doing it, because I have a class of my own to attend that period and the instructor is largely computer illiterate

:Q Maybe you're taking this "computer" thing to seriosuly...step away from your desktop

 

[Looney]

Ghost the machines, that'll make your job much easier.

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: Citrix
English Motherfusker, Do you speak it!!!!!!

I understood exactly what he was talking about.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

First, install all the programs you feel are used most. Next, ghost. Now, just pop the ghost CD's back in every week or as needed for a clean up. If you can connect a DVD or something externally because I dought they have them built in, you can have one disk per computer so you just have to pop in one disk and it copies the image over to the hard drive.