Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
Nice findI may have to deploy this to test at some point On 11 November 2010 17:37, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, James Rankin > wrote: > > I preferred the Netware "snake" that got bigger as the system utilization > > went up. > > Oh! I had forgotten about that. Th

Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Kerr
Ah man, too bad my servers are on the other side of the building. - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010

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2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
Didn't work here.. gives me a runtime error 13 and a "type mismatch". :-( -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? O

Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, James Rankin wrote: > I preferred the Netware "snake" that got bigger as the system utilization > went up. Oh! I had forgotten about that. That was cool. I remember watching that on an monochrome amber monitor. Hmm... I wonder... [/me Googles]... Ah. I ma

Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
y... > > > > > > -Malcolm > > > > > > > > *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2010 14:59 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? > > > > Point ou

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2010-11-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz
n wondered why the servers ran so slowly... -Malcolm From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 14:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? Point out to management that if your power settings

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2010-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
> Direct: (610) 993-3299 > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > don.gu...@prufoxroach.com > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:09 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Screensaver & Wal

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Don Guyer
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? Malcolm, personally I agree with not getting too creative, but equally it's good to know the options. I'

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2010-11-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz
12:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? I can't say I think it's a fantastic idea, however, you go into a bank or somewhere similar and the wallpaper and screensaver is whatever the corporation sets it to be. It's their propert

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Osborne, Richard
We use Netpresenter to create informational screen savers for certain PCs, but I like Cameron's idea below better. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policie

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2010-11-10 Thread Cameron
I set this up using GPO and a fileshare about 3 years ago. The *news* items were saved as .jpg's and dumped into a file share that would be accessed by all computers and the screensaver was set as the slideshow that accessed that folder. It actually works pretty well. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:34

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hutchings
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? We set our browser home pages to our Intranet site and also force IE to launch at startup. Of course our Intranet is highly utilized and also links the users to our Citrix Web Interface so it is a required starti

Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Sean Martin
gt; *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? > > > > My (English) company tried this years ago. I told them the moment they did > it, I'd file a health & safety suit. It's one thing to say "you will /not/ > display the f

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hutchings
problem or the comeback personally. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 17:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? My (English) company tried this years ago. I told them the moment they did it, I'd file a

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2010-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Yet another argument for making an Intranet website the "home page" for all browsers. :-) From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? My (English)

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2010-11-10 Thread Gary Slinger
My (English) company tried this years ago. I told them the moment they did it, I'd file a health & safety suit. It's one thing to say "you will /not/ display the following..." but it's absolutely ridiculous to dictate a desktop setup to folks that spend the day in front of the system (i.e. for

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Not currently doing it, but what my suggestion would be is this -- set up an Intranet website, and set that as the "home page" for all PCs in the company. That would allow the news to be disseminated w/o being overly annoying. :-) From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: We