I'm glad you posted this. I only have 3 Windows 7 machines in the lab, but I have about 6 others out in the building now. I'm sure we're going to run into that problem as well, especially since the whole lab will be going Windows 7 very shortly.
From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Rick Lawsha Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:42 AM To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org Subject: [tech-geeks] Windows 7 Folder Redirection and GPO We had a problem of slow logins and home folders being renamed. Any student who was running Windows 7 was subject to a group policy that redirected the My Documents folder to their home folder which was on a centrally located SAN. The student home folder was also mapped to drive letter J. This worked okay until recently. When we started rolling out Windows 7 labs we noticed that student home folders which were named with the student ID were being renamed to My Documents. Teachers were having a hard time finding student work because all folders were named the same! Searching the web led us to various hacks and work arounds but the solution for us was to stop redirecting the My Documents folder. Students now are instructed to save files to the J drive which is available to them on any computer they use to login. It appears this problem (or feature) was around since Vista days but we skipped that OS for the most part so we didn't notice this bug. Fixes involved making desktop.ini read only, remapping the redirected folder to a subfolder, and registry hacks, none of which appealed to us. _____ This electronic mail is copyrighted by Community Unit School District #205, Galesburg, Illinois USA. Unauthorized dissemination or duplication of it is prohibited. Violators of copyright/confidentiality laws may be prosecuted.
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