Windows 8 user accounts

deb123

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I have 6 windows 8 laptops for my students and I'm beyond exhausted for dealing with the poorly thought out consequences for the end user and the priorities of the end user.

I spent forever unistalling the junk and distractions as an administrator for these laptop. I also spent forever putting the most needed items in the start page first and then I started setting up student accounts. It took me about 6 hours to do this for just the 6 laptops because of the lack of user friendliness. It is amazing how often when you've left clicked to get the application menu it will also open and how often you have to shut these garbage applications and try again to get rid of them.

Anyway, much to my horror, all the crap that I uninstalled reinstalled itself to the student accounts, taking up an enormous amount of time. School started yesterday and these laptops required so much work, I only got a generic student account set up and never had a chance to check it out.

This is a serious problem. It took most of the one class for this computer to reinstall the junk. First day of school and I had one kids at high risk of dropping out, as in he just didn't come last year, already frustrated and hating his class. Microsoft is seriously a disaster to education. Anyway, I didn't realize the problem had been the reinstalling of all the junk.

I spent 4 hours after school yesterday working on getting the student specific accounts set up and I got through 2 laptops and I have a class in 75 minutes and I didn't get to any of the work necessary to actually prepare for the course content I'm supposed to teach.

Anyway, is there anything I can do so the user accounts that I set up mirror how I set up the administrator account and do not reinstall all the junk?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 7, windows 8, xp
Anyway, is there anything I can do so the user accounts that I set up mirror how I set up the administrator account and do not reinstall all the junk?

Not really sure on that part of your problem....You could try asking your schools network administrator for some advice on that, he/she might be able to give you some tips.

As to make your windows 8 experience a little better and more enjoyable, try installing Classic shell on them....it gives you the look and feel of windows 7 but with all the advantages/efficiency of windows 8. It's free.

Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom build
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X 4 965 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
    Memory
    G-Skill 8 GB PC 8500
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD XFX HD Radeon 6790D
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2l Samsung SyncMaster S20B300
    Screen Resolution
    1600 X 900
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 320 GB w/OS
    Seagate Barracuda 1 TB data storage
    PSU
    Ultra X4 750 watt fully modular
    Case
    Thermaltake OverSeer RX 1 fulltower
    Cooling
    Cooler Master Hyper212 120mm
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510
    Mouse
    Razor DeathAdder 3.5
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