Audience: Tech Staff
Technical Level: Medium
Each year, during the start of the new academic year we will have a new incoming class of law students (150 – 250) zooming by with newer and more complex computer problems. They can come in the form of a virus, trojan, worm, or spyware. Have you ever received the ever popular blue screen of death with a message informing you that Windows registry hive is missing or corrupted?
Working with limited staff, time and resources, what is your best option for fixing student laptop issues, installing software and running computer maintenance. The answer is to streamline the process and to automate the procedure.
In this session, we will discuss how to create the ultimate rescue CD that allows you to streamline the computer repair, maintenance, setup, and application installation process. We will focus our discussion on the two wonderful technology innovations: BartPE and AutoIt.
BartPE, Bart’s Preinstalled Environment is a bootable live Windows CD/DVD. BartPE supports various types of hardware and can be configured to use a variety of plug-ins to add applications, drivers or tools. For example, you can add the Firefox plug-in to make the browser available on the CD. When we build our BartPE CD’s we add the Windows XPE plug-in allowing BartPE to emulate the Windows XP environment, making it BartXPE.
AutoIt is a freeware BASIC-like language for automating Windows GUI and general purpose scripting. The two applications working in tandem can automate most of your end-user support tasks. For example you can automate applications and utilities to run automatically while under the BartXPE environment. Allowing you to boot off the CD and just walk away while AutoIt runs the utilities you automated.
* Additional materials including those from CALI conference can be found at http://law.asu.edu/it/bartpe
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Wayne Chu
Technology Support Analyst Associate
Arizona State University College of Law
Wayne dot Chu at asu dot edu
Edward Garcia
Technology Support Analyst Sr
Arizona State University College of Law
Edward dot Garcia at asu dot edu