[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

Tue Mar 10 11:51:16 EST 2009

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>
>> >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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>> timmer at melbpc.org.au<mailto:timmer at melbpc.org.au>
>> To: <mailto:itapps at edulists.com.au> <mailto:itapps at edulists.com.au>
>> itapps at edulists.com.au<mailto:itapps at edulists.com.au>
>> 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
>> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
>> 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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