public workstations question

[Angela Boyd]

Thank you to everyone who responded!

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Joel Marchesoni <jmarch at email.wcu.edu>wrote:

> I’m assuming you have DeepFreeze or something like it. We use DeepFreeze
> here and have a message on the desktop background about saving on a flash
> drive. However, we also have a thaw space set up in DeepFreeze that creates
> a separate drive (T: in our case) that doesn’t get erased when the machine
> reboots. We still had a lot of problems with patrons losing work in Word so
> we moved the Office autosave locations to the thaw space as hidden folders.
> That way if the machine crashes Office will recover their document when it
> comes back up. I attached a screenshot of the setting to change in Word.
> You get to the screen by going to File->Options.****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Angela Boyd
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 29, 2012 16:45
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> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] public workstations question****
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> Hello everyone out there!****
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> I'm just curious as to how you all handle public workstations.  Do your
> students ever lose their work because the workstation they were working on
> crashed and had to be rebooted?  What do you do to make sure most students
> don't lose their work when something like that happens?****
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> Thanks!  Angela****
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