Sorry that I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I took a little vacation time (Stayed home and worked for myself building an addition on the house. Not really a vacation!) but, I'm back now. Anyway, to answer your question. Yes, I use the disk protection. I turn it on
after I clone the drive. I haven't tried turning it on, then cloning it. That's an interesting experiment waiting to happen I think.
I wouldn't even think of not using the disk protection. It's you fall back position. If a patron does find a way to get a virus or add software, rebooting to change it back is an easy out. Much better than the bad old days of W9x, when a computer spent almost as much time on my desk (waiting for a fresh install) as out on the floor for our patrons.
Dan
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I see that I should have read what I posted closer. I discovered that the problem with the profiles came about because of the cloning of the drives. Everything worked fine
UNTIL I changed the computer name. Can't have 2 computers with the same name. It appears that SS uses the computer name as well as the user name to create the profile. Once the name is changed, the profile will fail to load properly. Renaming the computer back to the original name will cause the profile to load but, then you have 2 computers with the same name. So i have been cloning the OS & changing the computer name
THEN adding the profile.
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