RE: computerdisc-l: Comuters freezing

[Cynthia Kahler <kahler@watervalley.net>]

Shelley,

We had trouble with computers freezing using Windows95 (we upgraded) and 
Novell 3.12 (we are a C site).  It only happened when we accessed the 
shared drives to get files when using Microsoft Works.  (it doesn't happen 
with any other programs accessing the shared drive.  Students could access 
shared notepad files, Hyperstudio stacks, home pages that were stored on 
the server, etc.)  This was really an incovenience as I post my messages to 
my students on missing assignments, tests, etc. on the shared drive with 
students using Microsoft Works to access them.

I altered the login script to automatically delete old messages and copy my 
new messages to a direcory on their hard drive each time a  new student 
logged on.  I also wrote a short batch file that copied all the template 
files from the shared drive to the c:\ drive.  That way they no longer have 
to access the shared drive through Microsoft Works.  They still save all of 
their files to their directory on the server.  That seems to have solved my 
problems.  Our vendor said he thought Microsoft Works was the problem as we 
had some trouble (though not as much) when we had Windows 3.11.

Hope this gives you some ideas to try.

Cynthia Kahler
Oxford Middle School
-----Original Message-----
From:	Shelley Plett [SMTP:teacher@vicksburg.com]
Sent:	Thursday, January 21, 1999 6:33 AM
To:	Computer Discovery
Subject:	Re: computerdisc-l: Comuters freezing

Does anyone out there have trouble with their computers freezing up?  I'm a
D site and I can count on at least two computers freezing every period 
every
day.  In my class with 24 students, I usually have about 6 computers freeze
each day.

Usually the hourglass just sits there and Ctrl-Alt-Delete won't work.  So I
have the students turn off their computers, I go to the back room and take
their names off the connection screen on the file server, then have them 
log
back on again.  Of course they get the message that says they are trying to
log on to too many stations simultaneously.  It usually takes between five
and ten minutes before it will let them in again.

I know that if I ask the students to go to a certain application I should
not have them all go at once.  But sometimes it doesn't matter--the
computers still freeze up.  In fact, my computer freezes sometimes.  My
computer has even frozen up when no one else was in the room and I was the
only one working.

If we are working in MicroType Pro and the computers freeze, students can
log on as guest or s1 and still get to their MTP lessons.  But if we are
working in Microsoft Works, I don't think they can log on that way.  They
must log on as their username and password so they can save documents to
their directory.  I've worked around that problem before and had them save
their work to the hard drive of their computer then the next day I would 
put
it in their directory etc. etc. etc., but that is something extra to
remember to do.

Just wondering if anyone else has these problems.

Shelley Plett
Vicksburg Junior High School