We upgraded our public computers to Windows 7 We use XP Mode to play some
of the games that weren't compatible to run directly in Windows 7 and they
work fine.
Pc Reservation - our booking software works fine in Windows 7 as does our
print management software
We are using Deepfreeze version 7
We are using the 32 bit version of Windows 7 as the 64 bit wasn't
compatible with our other print management software.
If you have printers and scanners make sure they are compatible One of our
flatbed scanner wasn't compatible.
Other than that it works great and the patrons are happy with it.
We cloned all our systems and ran a repair when restarting each new system
and all was well. This only took a few minutes for each one.
Sylvia MacKenzie
Colchester East Hants Public Library
> We had to upgrade our public printing software (Pharos Uniprint) to a
> version that could run on Windows 7 clients, which was painful because of
> some other concurrent, non-Windows 7 reasons.
> Mastering sysprep (to change the SID and copy the profile used for
> configuration/installations to the default profile) was probably the most
> time consuming issue.
> Aside from that, it was predominantly software testing (making sure that
> everything we were running on the machines worked on Windows 7).
> There were a lot of policy changes/testing but that went pretty smoothly
> ... just allow lots of time for testing.
>
> Cindy Kimmick
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> UCLA Library Computing Services
> 310-825-7557
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>
> From: Library NT [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gretchen
> Garcia - LIBRARY
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LIBNT-L] Public computing and Windows 7
>
> Has anyone put public machines out with Windows 7 yet? What fun stories
> and pitfalls can you share so that I may avoid them? ;) We are currently
> running XP, SAM and Deep Freeze on a domain structure with some GPO's to
> lock the kids out of a variety of things. ;)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gretchen Garcia
> MCLD IT Services
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.mcldaz.org
>
> "There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary
> and those who don't." =)
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