!Administering Lab Computer Desktops
This is tricky. 
When you recreate images, whether you've suped up a VMware image or are still using a normal Windows install.  You must configure the desktops to have a minimum of uniformity throughout each lab.  Here are several things to watch out for:
*Instructor machines should be clones of student machines with extra rights to read and write to networked drives.
*The start menu should be identical in the [380] lab and the [m376] lab, even though they probably will have different images.
*If you use activedesktop, keep it fairly simple and consistent throughout the computers.  And try to have a back-up plan if and when it starts breaking (i.e. white screens of death)
*Also, if you use activedesktop and Protopage.com (or some other website), make sure you update it from time to time.
*Keep screensavers relevant and interesting, but not distracting (I would classify the default screensaver which comes with [Google Pack|?page=google_software] as distracting).
*Group startmenu items by category, but still retain a list shortcuts to all programs in alphabetical order for a glossary. Sometimes what is intuitive to us isn't to others.