<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/04/05

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W  F

<strong>Total hours for week: 12 (?)</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

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I've almost got all the rehabilitate-able computers fixed up. They're in a large pile in the computer lab. 2 or 3 have issues that I need something new to fix. Some of the dust spray stuff would be good to have because some of them tend to overheat. It ended up that 75% of the machines were almost working or had a bad motherboard and so could be discarded immediately.

I've started deleting the separate "Data" partition that the machines are set up with by default and extending the C: partition to cover the whole drive. I think that this helps the computers performance-wise, since I notice that the machines that are running out of space on C: tend to be very, very slow. I've been using this program, that lets you resize the partition without having to boot from a flash drive: <a href="http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html">http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html</a>.

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There's a Dell laptop in the back that is probably in working order (the label says the 3 year warranty expired in 2008), but I can't find a power cable for it. I don't know where there would be any lying around.

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EDIT: Also, would it be bad if teacher accounts were given admin rights on machines? Or at least on certain machines (i.e. the one in their room)? That should be possible with local security policies, right? I see Mr. Bui asking for the techco password very frequently -- maybe it would be easiest to give his account permission to run installers on the computer in his room?