<strong>Your Name: </strong>Patrick Collins<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 12/7/2012

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

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

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

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

Life as normal at Ray.

Monday: Worked through some issue on a computer, helped one of the pre-K teachers get a DVD playing. Nothing in particular that I remember.

Wednesday: Started on a new machine. This one was very slow, had the task manger disabled, had DF installed, and didn't recognize its mouse. There was some issue with plug and play drivers (the USB ports were fine as the keyboard worked okay) that I couldn't fix with one of the Dell disks. I re-imaged the machine and the mouse is now working okay, but I had issues getting in to the default account and it needs to have all of the normal CPS stuff set up (user accounts, name set correctly, join the domain, etc). It's sitting in the stack of computers that work okay and I'll get to it next time I'm around, it should be fine.

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Friday (today): Continued working on a machine that I had begun on Wednesday. This one had issues with its HD, so I ran chkdsk off of a Windows install disk and all was well. Its CD drive was also dead, so I had to replace that in the process. Once it was running, I found that it was slow, had DF installed, and had the task manager disabled. I first thought that the task manager deal was an effect of a virus, now I'm wondering if this wasn't the standard way that computer lab machines were set up at Ray in the past? Maybe they had issues with kids killing the Insight Teacher Monitor process. It's really annoying, anyway.

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The machine seems to be stuck in a loop where it keeps trying to update MS Office and stops because it doesn't have sufficient privileges, then runs the installer again, etc. It also tells me that I don't have sufficient privileges to install Google Chrome. It's weird and I'm running a virus scan as I have to leave early to talk to a professor. If that doesn't work I'll poke around user permissions next time and if that doesn't work I'll re-ima