Howdy and thanks for the tips.
The reason I have this problem consistantly is because I am
teaching a class in Windows XP. We have swappable hard drives in the
computers in the classroom so that we can pull out the regular drive
and stick my class drives in and switch them back at the end of class
so that we do not interfere with the other class subjects taught in
this room.
I have been teaching Windows for 6 years and XP for 5 (this
being the last year before moving on to Win7), and this is the first
semester where this has become a problem. In fact, it never happened
once before this semester. I fixed several students' machines with the
methods I listed, but have one that I cannot fix. We also did a repair
install on it and I guess we are going to have to do a full install.
We cannot update the machines because we do not have Internet
connectivity until our school's Network Infrastructure Upgrade is
finished sometime next year (Well, we could do updates the hard way,
but why bother). We also do not run Anti-virus and again why bother. I
have a server (sort of, I put Server software on an old machine pieced
together with a 24-port hub that is also not connected to the
Internet), and I make the students for learning purposes make their
own patch cables to plug into the hub and also teach them how to put
their machines on our little improvised network both in a work group
and in a domain. The drives are wiped clean and repartitioned every
semester (by the students) before we start installing Windows each
semester.
The problem started about 2 classes after the install, and then
again, it has never happened before in the past and I cannot figure
out what is different this time. Each student has a separate install
disk, so for it to be corrupt installs on about 8 machines is a pretty
big coincidence. During the 2 classes between the install and the
problem, they were just doing activities out of the book like learning
to create folders and add/delete security permissions. And add user
profiles for workgroups and domains with and without local and global
security rights. They do not get into the Window configurations that
might possibly affect the start menu for another 2 weeks.
If this added information gives you any ideas, I would love to
hear them. And thank you for your time.
Thanks......Red.
On Oct 6, 2:59 am, DaveyBoi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let us know if things change or if you've tried anything different,
> any registry changes, tweaks you did yourself or with any third-party
> software you did on the system files, registry, etc
>
> Let us know if this helps.
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