<strong>Your Name: Luke Peeler</strong><strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/1/29

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T, Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: 6 hours per week</strong>

<strong>The School: Pershing West Middle School
</strong><em>(Since the school is in the headers here, and in the checkbox Categories, don’t bother to also enter it as a tag.)</em>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general and helping a teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>The last two weeks have been relatively quiet at Pershing West. I repaired a few laptops for Ms. Ellis, our tech contact at the school. One simply had its wireless switch flipped off! The other required a more elaborate fix. Windows kept trying to initiate ActiveX desktop recovery and multiple restarts and a few registry edits suggested by web searched did not seem to do the trick. I ended up removing the School account (as this was the affected account) after ensuring no important student files would be lost. I think reinstalled the account via the standard accounts script supplied by CPS. I also did a few maintenance tasks on the computers in Ms. Ellis' room to prepare for NWEA testing for some of her students. This mostly involved limiting startup programs and clearing program caches. On one of the computers, though, I had to manually increase the virtual memory page size, since Microsoft Word would not operate well otherwise.

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The following week I swapped out a faulty Elmo projector for Ms. Pulido after confirming that the unit itself was faulty and not power supply or display connection. The rest of the week was spent troubleshooting various network connectivity issues that Tremayne seems to know more details on. It seems that parts of the building have been arbitrarily losing wireless access, though the ethernet connection seems fine. In a few cases, I was able to just link teachers' computers to the ethernet using our plentiful spare cat5 wires in the media c