Computer Lab bluetooth problems

We have a lab of 8, 27" iMac i5s that all came with bluetooth mice and keyboards. The tech department at my school have no idea of how to work with macs, and named all the computers similar, and with no uniformity whatsoever. Having 24 bluetooth devices in the same room is very problimatic, as one would assume.
What would be the best way to keep the input devices paired with their computer and ONLY with their computer?
I have full administrative privilages (another bumble by the techs) and have a bit of experience sorting out these bluetooth problems, but i'm tired of it.
Thanks,
-Superdave

I recently began teaching in a middle school with 60 iMacs in one room. We have a constant problem with mouse connections where one computer's mouse starts controlling another computer. We go in and unmatch them but it is a constantly recurring issue.
I know it was said here that once a mouse is matched to a computer that it cannot match with another but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
I am suspicious that perhaps this is an issue of different mice being on the same frequency (or whatever bluetooth uses) and problems crop up when computers are started before others.
All computers and mice are numbered so there isn't an issue of confusion there.
I am wondering if there is a systematic way to go through all the computers and rematch them with the mice and ensure that they are all on completely different frequencies. Is there a limit to the number of mice that can be in one room?
Thanks!

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Ok Im Near A Computer Lab, And I want to get free wifi. I can log into the router from one of the computer lab's computers by the >192.168.1.1 and see passphrase, wep keys all that stuff...
My Question is how can I get internet at home from this router?
More info about router:
Firmware Version: v2.0.02
Mod: Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT160Nv2
Questions I need answered:
Basic Things Like, Mainly:
-What Adapter Do I Need? Is My Idea Plausible? What Information Do I need To Log Into This Internet connection from home? What Are The Consequences Of Leeching Internet this way? just stuff to get me going.
-If I Succeed In Getting Internet From The Computer Lab's router, Will "They" Be Able To See My Personal Email, What I search For on the internet, Downloads Things like this?
Other Maybe Useless Info: I have a old Wireless-G PCI Adapter Model No. WMP54G, I Have Not Tried But I Dont Think The Card Works And Is Broken Do To After Installed The Toolbar Icon Was Completly "Greyed Out"

I'm pretty sure the "computer lab" settings are configured and restricted that is why the default address is not working. Basically, if it is not your network more so if the network is secured, then definitely, you will not gonna be able to connect unless they had provide you the wireless settings like the SSID and the password. However though, if it is unsecured, then, that's no problem at all.
As with your wireless adapter, check on the links below:
Installing the WMP54G v4 for the first time
http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/ukp.aspx?vw=1&docid=bf9526ef1fbf4b0e8dbaecb48950d7e8_3769.xml&pid=80&r...
Checking if the WMP54G v4 is Installed Properly
http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/ukp.aspx?pid=80&vw=1&articleid=3767

Is there a solution for Higher Ed Computer Labs?

I am an instructional Technician for the Photography Department at a Community College. We currently purchase and use the Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium here in the Photography, Graphics and Journalism departments. We have over 150 Macintosh computers licensed with your product and we are very interested in the Creative Cloud.
Currently we purchase the licenses for all of our student and faculty computers, we are hoping that you will be developing an education solution for computer labs like ours.
What we would like to see is an arrangement that would allow our students to subscribe to the Creative Cloud for a three-month period that would be paid for prior to the first day of classes. This would avoid classroom disruptions from students failing to pay if the subscription was on a month-to-month basis.
While I understand that the current Student and Teacher edition at $19.95 is a limited promotion, a price of $20–$25 per month or $75 for a three-month period would be less than the cost of a textbook and could be easily charged as a class fee.
A potential problem is that students sometimes do not use the same computer all the time. If students are taking multiple classes in different labs, they need to be able to access the programs on several computers. I am currently subscribed to the free trial month and my impression is that the subscription is dependent on logging in with an Adobe ID. If this is the case, students should be able to use this log in to access the software they need on whatever computer they are at as long as they have an active (paid) login, and are not logged in on another computer.
As it is everywhere in education, our program budgets are tight. The Creative Cloud would allow us to save a significant amount of funds while still offering the most current technology to our students and faculty. The ability to access any software we need and allowing students the ability to access the programs at school and at home will empower both our faculty and students. Additionally, the availability of cloud storage will allow students to work on files at home and at school seamlessly.
I am making several assumptions:
Pricing –
Student and faculty pricing will be available.
A price will be established for a three-month period to facilitate a college semester.
Access –
Students will be able to access the programs on more than one lab computer.
Is access controlled by logging in with an Adobe ID?
Once the software has been installed on a computer, will any student with an Adobe ID be able to access it?
We are hoping to be able to implement this by next fall, so I am anticipating that these details will be worked out before then.

Great to know this I will be sharing it with my professors also. To have the "team" version would be great! Many problems occur for students with portable storage units. The worst is forgetting to download a project and take it with you. which really hurts our timing on a project to completion. Also as the projects grow in size we can end up with storage issues as some files are very large. This sounds like a grand solution.
Thank you for answering my question earlier Mr. Rice. Now I need to get back to my assignments. bye.

Bluetooth problem Yosemite

I bought a new iMac 21,5 with wireless keyboard and the Magic Mouse.
I've been using it for about two weeks now and everything was working fine, until i installed the new OSX Yosemite when it released.
Now, about 10x an hour the computer loses the bluetooth connection with the keyboard.
This is very annoying, since i use it for 3D drawing, and everytime it loses connection, i have to fill in the numbers again.
I've read on the internet that a lot of people share these problems.
Is Apple coming with a solution or update? Or can i fix this myself?
Read something about resetting RAM etc as well. But since my computer is new, I dont think that'll do it.
Thank you very much.

I had the bluetooth problem where my MacBook Pro wouldn't reconnect to my external bluetooth keyboard after the initial connect when I upgraded to Yosemite. I found the solution in another thread from nashntk: "everything were solved by resetting SMC Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)."
So far, the SMC reset fixed all of my bluetooth issues after the Yosemite upgrade. And it seems to be an ongoing solution as one reset has allowed me to disconnect and reconnect again multiple times.

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i have a problem with audio output, the sound is muted and it said that my bluetooth audio device can not be started. i download realtek High definition from the support system and the audio system start working again. But when i check the device manager the bluetooth problem still not fixed. It said i had a code 10 problem. I just recently update my windows to 8.1, but before there is no problem with the audio... and recently i find out that i can not use my bluetooth too. and all the bluetooth system seems doesn't work out
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Actually, I solved this issue myself after a while.
I induced a system restore prior to the date when I began to experience this error.
It then happened once more, so I went to the "PC Settings" menu and selected "Update and recovery".
There were apparently updates to be installed, so I clicked "More details/information", and found that there were 3 Intel-related drivers that were listed, but for some reason, Windows 8 didn't automatically install them, so I checked each one of them and proceeded to install them and it has been smooth sailing for me ever since that.
SO.
A piece of advice for all those who have experienced the issue I detailed in my former post:
Check what updates need to be installed on your computer in the "PC Settings" app thing, and see if there are any driver-realted updates (like for your graphics card, especially).

High school computer lab: turning off iSight, disabling Photobooth

We purchased new iMacs for our computer labs, and the iSight camera plus Photo Booth have been nothing but needless distractions since the school year began. I think that it is UNACCEPTABLE that Apple did not foresee the need to turn these cameras off and provide a way to do so in system preferences, rather than forcing people to rely on a command line hack to get this done.
I also find it incredibly stupid to provide people WITHOUT administrator privileges the option of changing the account pictures through Photo Booth. This is just idiotic. All of the account pictures for our public accounts (where all system preferences are locked) have been changed to photo booth pictures and it takes time to change them back on 90+ computers.
Yes, I know that Photo booth access can be disabled, but it is like it never entered Apple's mind that these computers might be used in computer labs, otherwise, (a) the option to turn this camera off would have been provided, and (b) they would not have included an option in an application which allows a person without admin privileges to change an account's picture. If the ability to change an account picture is turned off, shouldn't photo booth know this? Stupid.
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I have sent apple my feedaback because I have a similar problem. I have a mobile MacBook Lab and can't seem to find a way to disable the option in Photo Booth that sends the photo taken to the users login account picture. This cuts down on my administrative efficiency because I have to change the user account pictures back to its original. The problem that there is no option to disable the "send to accounts feature" in a school enviornment is the students who use photo booth to take obscene photos and then send them to the accounts picture.
Please help me with a solution. Is there is a way to recreate the Login window to it's, original established set of account pictures, after a user logs out of their account? These MacBooks are used by many different grade levels including 1st and 2nd graders and I cannot expose them to the obscene login pictures.
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Managing Docks in a computer lab

I've got a couple Dock issues across my computer labs:
Firstly, is there a way to change one Dock icon? Specifically, I updated a program, and this time, it came in a folder instead of by itself; since the path to the program changed, it made the icon turn into a question mark. This wouldn't be a problem, but I have to manage seven sets of Docks across my labs, which means manually editing and propagating seven com.apple.dock.plist's. Is it possible to make a .pkg installer that will copy the new program, delete the old program, and update the Dock icon?
Secondly, which .plist manages Dock magnification? It doesn't seem to be handled by com.apple.Dock.plist, and it seems to irk the faculty. (I rather like the effect.)

The simplest way is to drop and drop the program's icon in and out of the dock. Click and hold the icon then drag to your desktop and it will disappear. To load a new version of the same software, just do the reverse. Click and drag the programs new icon onto the dock and place it. Do this 7 times and in 6 minutes your problems are solved.
P.S. After each install make sure to run Disk Utility and update permissions on each machine.
The mac doesn't delete old programs when installing. Updaters overwrite the existing ie: going from version 6.1 to version 6.3 will simply update the current version, but going from version 6 to version 7, will not delete version 6!
Be careful not to delete the old software right away, you never know what bugs are in the newer version.
You can simply configure the documents to open in the newer one.

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I'm configuring Xcode 4 to run under Snow Leopard in a computer lab . If a student logs in, they are asked for a id and password of somebody in the Developer Tools Group (which I understand is really _developer).
The student accounts are being supplied by Active Directory. I've asked my Active Directory administrator to see if he can indicate that the students are in that group, so that they can run Xcode 4 apps while remaining as standard users.
I'm surely not the first (or even 10000th) person to encounter this problem: running Xcode 4 in a lab with managed users. How does everybody else handle this?
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PE8 in a 26 Computer Lab of New HPi5-64bit 8Gb-W7-Crashing/Sluggish/Wont Launch

Greetings,
I hope somebody is familiar with this problem and can offer a solution that I can forward to my school district's tech support, because it's near imposible to teach video editing with PE8 in its current state.
I teach AV Production Tech and Graphic Design at a public school in Texas. We just got a brand new computer lab with 26 new HP Z-something's...not sure of the number but they are i5 processors with 8GB of ram running W7 Pro at 64 bits with nVidia...again..I don't know the numbers (I'm typing from home. . ) but they are very fast video processors with as much ram as you can get, ordered specifically from one of the HP Ad's on Adobe's website . Everything else Adobe runs splendidly and lighting fast - even real time 3D video in Photoshop! But. . . Premeire Elements 8 is close to being completely dysfunctional. On the computers where it doesn't crash (as often), it runs horribly sluggish. This happens regardless of project specs. Even NTSC DV project files without any video at all - just titles and text - clunks along painfully slow with frustratingly long lags between clicks, drags and other mouse commands. And then, typically on 3 or 4 other random computers in the lab there will be one or both of the following problems: 1) You can't launch the program at all. It acts like it's going to launch, but then gets stuck in the taskbar and you can't get it out, or 2) Everytime you try to enter text, it crashes entirely. I guess I should ad a 3rd and that would be crashing for no appearant reason at all.
Needless to say, this is extremely frustrating for the students and makes them want to give up, since it is the only editing system we have. I'll be polite and not say here what it does for the teacher.
My tech has reinstalled PE8 with all the latest updates on the many occasions I have put in a trouble ticket, yet the problems still exist.
I can't imagine why PE8 won't run well, or at all, on these machines like all the rest of CS5 Design Premium does. Could it be due to all of the network filtering we have in our district? My district has the strongest lock-down on computer systems I have ever experienced.
This is extremely frustrating because the only thing our techs do is wipe and reinstall. I can't type up trouble reports all day long each day because I don't have the time, but if I were to do so everytime a machine with PE8 crashed or would not launch, I would be busy all day doing just that.
I hope there's a simple fix to this!
Thanks in advance
Chris

As Bill says we get very few reports of success using PRE across a network. It also doesn't help that PRE8 was generally considered a bit of a disaster - even when running standalone.
You don't mention the configuration of your hard disks - they can also aggravate problems if you don't have a lot of free defragmented space (minimum for success is 30GB - I go for 60GB).
Another PRE8 issue was the auto-analyzer that takes over most of the CPU activity.
You say that your Tech Support have installed all 'updates' - ask them to confirm that this includes the latest graphics and sound drivers from the manufacturers web sites (nVidia in your case for graphics). And the latest Quicktime player.
And do work through the article Bill referenced.
I'd also be inclined to query with your IT suppliers why, for new HP machines, they provided an out of date version of PRE. PRE10 has been out since 19th September 2011. And, assuming you procured educational licenses, I'm surprised that's not the version you received.
Maybe, to alleviate the frustration of both tutor and students, you could teach some basic principles with something like Windows Movie Maker.
Also download the PRE10 Trial version and see how that works on your systems.
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

TWIST: Strange Bluetooth Problem

This doesn't make sense to me. When the system is started from a completely powered off state, the bluetooth radio doesn't turn on and no devices will pair. The bluetooth icon in the taskbar is missing. I tried to manually turn it on but Windows won't let me (in the Wireless section of "Change PC Settings", the Bluetooth option is grayed out).
If I restart the system (from the powered on state), the radio turns on and everything works fine.The bluetooth icon in the task bar is visible and my devices will pair.
My wireless radio always works regardless of how I start the system. It has never failed through all of this wierdness.
I have the Intel Centrino version of the twist (i5, 128GB SSD) with the latest driver and the latest bios version. I tried re-installing the bluetooth drivers but I get the same results.
HISTORY: From day one, I never had any bluetooth or wireless problems. Last week the system was crashing with the error DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE. After a few of those I checked for updates and installed everything available to me (a bios update and a few other things but no actual drivers). After the updates, the bluetooth problem occurred. However, it's been a few days and I haven't had the Power State Failure crash.
I ran Lenovo's hardware scan and there are no problems with any devices.
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I have been on the phone to Lenovo support. They say it has to do with power management, not all services restoring when PC is turned on. They asked me to,click the start button, run, enter compmgmt.msc, This opens a window to Computer Management. Now open device manager, expand Bluetooth, right click Broardcom Bluetooth 4.0, properties, power management tab, uncheck 'allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". I did all this and it made no difference on my PC. He then went on to say there is another way but it will add 10 seconds to the startup time of my PC which I am not willing to do. So things remain the same until I find a better solution. Has any one else had any luck with this annoying problem? Now I never shutdown my laptop, I just close the lid. Bluetooth starts again when the lid is opened.

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As Bill says we get very few reports of success using PRE across a network. It also doesn't help that PRE8 was generally considered a bit of a disaster - even when running standalone.
You don't mention the configuration of your hard disks - they can also aggravate problems if you don't have a lot of free defragmented space (minimum for success is 30GB - I go for 60GB).
Another PRE8 issue was the auto-analyzer that takes over most of the CPU activity.
You say that your Tech Support have installed all 'updates' - ask them to confirm that this includes the latest graphics and sound drivers from the manufacturers web sites (nVidia in your case for graphics). And the latest Quicktime player.
And do work through the article Bill referenced.
I'd also be inclined to query with your IT suppliers why, for new HP machines, they provided an out of date version of PRE. PRE10 has been out since 19th September 2011. And, assuming you procured educational licenses, I'm surprised that's not the version you received.
Maybe, to alleviate the frustration of both tutor and students, you could teach some basic principles with something like Windows Movie Maker.
Also download the PRE10 Trial version and see how that works on your systems.
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Computer Lab Desktop issue

I have a computer lab of 28 eMacs with a Xserve. I control the eMacs with ARD. This morning when I booted the lab all the desktops were changed to my personal desktop rather than the student desktops with their folders and work. Nothing different was done yesterady from previous days so I cannot figure out the problem. 2 of the eMacs are not attached to the server and they were not changed. I'm thinking server problem. Anyone have any ideas?

Kathy Teaches-
First of all make sure you don't overlook the obvious. Including having been hacked. Might be something hardware related though. Is this storm we are having on the East Coast causing power problems?
Do you still have control of the server? If so, try powering the server completely off via the shutdown command. We want power off, nothing running. Shut down all of the eMacs as well.
Power down the switch that all of the networked eMacs are plugged into. Wait a few minutes. Power on the switch and then the server. Power up one eMac other than your own and see what happens. Then power up your main Mac. If this works keep bringing up other Macs and see what happens.
If things don't come back as normal please post your results here.
How robust is your personal password system? How robust is your security in general? Kids are wicked smart ya know, and they will work endlessly to defeat you. Just because.
I am around off and on today. I will keep the gears turning. Please let me know what happens.
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HT1206 Lots of info about one user using multiple computers. What about multiple users with separate Apple IDs using same computer? Having problems getting my wifes new iPhone talking to her apple account on the computer we share (2 users)

Lots of info about one user using multiple computers. What about multiple users with separate Apple IDs using same computer? Having problems getting my wifes new iPhone talking to her apple account on the computer we share (2 users)

You need to create a user account for your wife (or yourself depending on who has the current user account). When syncing, each of you should sign in as a separate user, login to iTunes and then sync. I had this problem when my sister got an iPhone. When we did her initial sync, everything on my iPhone showed up on hers. Apple gave me this solution.

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My wife had an iPad for a year and synced to our computer with no problem. I recently received an ipad2 and when I tried to sync using separate apple and iTunes passwords, under her computer user name, it appears I over-road her account and synced all he

My wife had an iPad for a year and synced to our computer with no problem. I recently received an ipad2 and when I tried to sync using separate apple and iTunes passwords, under her computer user name, it appears I over-road her account and synced all her apps with my apps on my iPad. I then set myself up as a new user on our computer and tried to sync. I now get the error that my iPad is synced to another library. How can I start over without erasing all my data on the iPad?

Go back to her login. Unless you deliberately erased apps, they should all be there, both yours and hers! Then, you need to set up each iPad separately. You will notice that they have separate names for that very purpose.
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