[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

[Robert Ruzbacky]

At the moment we are sticking with Windows XP. We have some test machines
with Vista, but find that drivers are a problem with the 64-bit version.
Also Vista seems to have problems with profiles and locking users out of
their accounts. Until we have ironed out some of the problems, we will
still use XP (unless Windows 7 has less issues than Vista!)

Robert
St Aloysius College





> Hampton Park Secondary College changed to Vista with the new laptops at
> the
> end of last year. The network is still using XP. We were told we had no
> choice about the operating system. It had to be Vista. I think one person
> likes it, but everyone elso would much rather have XP.
>
>
>
> Jim
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Timmer-Arends
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 6:07 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
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> Our last batch of 2008 laptops came with VISTA. It operated nowhere else
> in
> the school and caused lots of problems.
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> For this year's laptops the techs created their own XP image and many of
> those with VISTA are requesting rollbacks.
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> Regards
>
> Robert T-A
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Jock Garnsworthy <mailto:jock at willihigh.vic.edu.au>
>
> To: Year 12 IT <mailto:itapps at edulists.com.au>  Applications Teachers'
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:06 PM
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> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
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> 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 ?
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Jock Garnsworthy
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown 3016
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