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Yeah - sorted with a removal script so it wasn't too painful. Unluckily for us our pupils noticed it straight away and were delving into all sorts of things they shouldnt've, but we think no harm was done.

@cluberti: Ah right. Yes I had it previously set as default - ie "not declined but left to manual or not approved" - and then WDS3 is fully installed to all clients from that? That would be an error in the roll out in my opinion. I admit to being lapse with my configuration, but was trusting that the default setting wouldn't cause me problems, a nieve assumption.

You didn't read the links then?

Yep - have a WSUS server see more info here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/1...23&from=rss

Today our 350 PC domain had Windows Desktop Search 3 installed across it. Apparently it's installed under 'patch only' settings. Amazing. What the hell were MS thinking of with this? Who would not want the choice not to install this? It's something I don't want anyway. We also have a problem with it in that it displays an icon in the notification area, that if clicked (by pupils on our tightly locked down system) they have access to mmc - not itself restricted by default as pupils were let no where near it. For now we've turned off the notification area. Does anyone know if MS are intending to reverse this?

Nepali - I think you misread my answer. LimitLogon is a FREE tool from Microsoft to achieve what you are looking for... to stop concurrent connections. People have achieved similar by scripting something to work in a similar way - write the logon details to a file and look up that file to see if a user is allowed to log on - if their details are found in the file then they're not permitted to log in again. Do you know about the education IT Tech Support forum edugeek.net ?? There are several posts on this topic: http://edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&a...mp;mode=results

Outlook/ Outlook Express > file > export

I'd hard wire between your PC and your router first anyway just to see if the connection improves (using a long RJ45 patch lead). That outlet socket is Coax/ RF. whilst you might get away with just wiring up two wires to convert to RJ45 - I can't find anyone that sells converters. I did find mention of running video signal through RJ45 and people were saying that maybe cat7 was up to it. It'd be good if you could run Cat5 cable between those TV sockets and change the faceplates to RJ45 - is that not possible? That'd be your best option for speed/reliability. Again, homeplug would be so much less hassle. Hopefully the price will come down soon.

hmm - how many times have we heard that before! There's also UserLock which costs about £2.50 per client. The predecessor to limitlogon was CConnect - but that was insecure.

You need limitlogin from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetma...ilitySpotlight/ Has been built in in Citrix for years of course

I very much doubt that the hiccups are anything to do with your wireless connection, but entirely to do with your connection from the exchange to where the telephone line enters your house. With 3 computers sharing the line, if all are on the internet at the same time then your speed will be divided by three. It matters not where you split that connection, it will only ever be capable of the speed your paying your ISP for. Pay more to your ISP to have greater bandwidth, or a connection more suited to gaming - ISPs offer products for different uses, perhaps you're on the wrong scheme. Do you mean 1. the ADSL enabled telephone point in the wall, 2. the broadband cable connection in your wall, or 3. the RJ45 connection in your wall? 1. You'd need another ADSL line & router/ modem to get full ADSL speed dedicated to yourself 2. By your speed test i'd assume you dont have cable 3. Splitting RJ45 can be done but doesn't really work, due to interference across the wires. It'd be worse than wireless. Convert the single socket into double. If you're thinking about running a wire from your main telephone socket, why don't you run a RJ45 lead intead and plug into the router? Best performance and cheapest way is to buy a long enough RJ45 cable and plug your PC directly into your router. Better than that buy the bits and hardwire RJ45 between the rooms using proper sockets. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Module...O&U=strat15 The most expensive, in-between performance yet most convenient method is to buy a homeplug kit for just over £100. Plug in both ends to your mains sockets and from either end plug RJ45 cables, 1 to your PC and one to your router. http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopD...?ProductID=4744 Is your friend talking about a wireless bridge between 2 points? Sounds to me like he's talkin out of his a**.

Control Panel > User Accounts > click on the user to modify > change the picture

alt + ctrl + del only works from the login screen ...if it's XP Pro. If it's XP Home you only get to log in as administrator from safe mode.

Is the account disabled? Right click My Computer > manage > Local Users and Groups > users > double click user > uncheck disable If it was the administrator account that has become hidden, press alt + ctrl + del twice and you can manually log in as administrator from there, or follow this guide: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/05/07/u...-in-windows-xp/

Your wireless connection will be fine and should not be your main bottleneck. Normally nowadays you should be getting 54mbps which is way above your ISP connection of 4mbps. Homeplug is still expensive, and will only buy you 100mbps for about £100, or 200mbps at absolute best. Only advantage is no more cables to run. A lot cheaper for now would be to hard wire rather than wireless. You can at least prove to yourself that the performance issue isn't with your wireless connection.