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Office 2003 and Deep Freeze problem
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Office 2003 has voice recognition built in. We are an educational institution and we used DeepFreeze to (Freeze)protect the hard drives. Students can go and make any changes they want but when the computer is rebooted everything is set to our defaults. For voice recognition our students have to create a profile and let the software learn their voice so they can go back each class and work on their own profiles. With DeepFreeze you can have a part of the hard drive unprotected (Thawed) so that you can save data and it still be there when you reboot. I am trying to find a way to be able to save voice profiles without having to leave the machine unprotected.
Now I understand. I know that it is necessary to lock down PCs for students otherwise students can perform wonderful tricks for the next users!
I'm not familiar with DeepFreeze but have academic customers who use Windows policies to lock the desktop. Providing you have Windows 2003 server and Windows XP desktops, it should be possible to lock down the desktops using policies but allow the saving of the speech profile.
Regards: tf1
I'm not familiar with DeepFreeze but have academic customers who use Windows policies to lock the desktop. Providing you have Windows 2003 server and Windows XP desktops, it should be possible to lock down the desktops using policies but allow the saving of the speech profile.
Regards: tf1
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We have already tried that option and some of the software that is used requires administrative rights. So that eventhough we have it locked down they still end up getting viruses and spyware. It is a nightmare. We are a college and we have very computer litereate people here and the best for us is DeepFreeze.
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IS-IT--Management
I hate having to assign all XP Users as administrators most of the time.. I hope in Vista Microsoft changes it so that the other accounts aren't so locked down.. or maybe make it so you can customise what rights a user group has(That would be Preferred, but i doubt it will happen)
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