[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

Tue Mar 10 12:35:26 EST 2009

Jock,

Can you find out what their solution was and let us know.

Warrick

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jock Garnsworthy
Sent: Tue 10/03/2009 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

Thanks to all who offered feedback on the great VISTA slowdown. The consensus was clearly leave it alone !
However, during the last week our techie has found a potential solution to the slow login times and has deployed it. From a 3 to 10 min login ( more often the later) we are down to 1 to 2 min login. All seems rosy at this stage with fingers crossed as we continue to monitor the solution. 
BTW our workstations are Intel Pentium R , 3 Ghz with 2 Gig RAM.

Thanks again

Jock Garnsworthy
Williamstown High School
Williamstown
93971899

On 7/03/09 9:49 AM, "Roland Gesthuizen" <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:

	Counterpart at VicRoads laughed when I mentioned VISTA. We also run XP as a virtual machine on an OSX platform, it works well here and the milk has not gone off.

	Quick reality check. Faster computing doesnt really equate to faster thinking. Flasher desktops dont really equate to better looking outcomes. We are preparing students to be great kids with strategies like play and exploration. Lets not turn them into smaller versions adults or industrial fodder. A fun lesson does equate to constructive learning and can even be done with a stick on the beach sand. (grumpy old man waves stick)

	Regards Roland

	2009/3/4 Royce Williams <Royce.Williams at billanook.vic.edu.au>

		You have to see the irony.
		Saying use Vista but using an iPhone.
		We buy machines that include the "downgrade" to. XP.

		Royce Williams
		Sent from my AppleBerry

		On 04/03/2009, at 8:11 PM, "David Fenwick" <whereisfenners at gmail.com<mailto:whereisfenners at gmail.com>> wrote:

		There are many benefits of vista - increased security, faster access to programs with search bar, more control via group policy, better moviemaker/paint and it looks better -and it runs well on an appropriately spec'd machine.
		Ask the kids what they'd like and most would say vista because they have it at home with office 2007.
		Schools should be encouraging use of the latest technology and always looking to move forward.

		Sent from David Fenwick's iPhone

		On 04/03/2009, at 6:53 PM, 31Graham Marshall <<mailto:graham951 at ho!
		%20tmail.com <http://20tmail.com <http://20tmail.com/> > >graham951 at hotmail.com<mailto:graham951 at hotmail.com>> wrote:

		Leave the B....y thing alone. It's a Microsoft Stuff Up.

		Graham Marshall[http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif]

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		Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
		Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:06:51 +1100

		Our last batch of 2008 laptops came with VISTA. It operated nowhere else in the school and caused lots of problems.

		For this year's laptops the techs created their own XP image and many of those with VISTA are requesting rollbacks.

		Regards
		Robert T-A
		----- Original Message -----
		From: Jock Garnsworthy
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		Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:06 PM
		Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

		Hi all,
		Slightly off topic, but I would like opinions with what schools are doing re VISTA.
		It was deployed over the Xmas holidays here and we have had no end of problems mainly with very slow speed issues. I am trying to convince powers to be to roll back to XP.

		Any comments ?

		Thanks,

		Jock Garnsworthy
		Williamstown High School
		Williamstown 3016
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