One Note 2003 and Agilix Gobinder Lite problem

[Darin]

I work for a school district and we have our students users and machines
locked down pretty tight. We recently purchased 25 Toshiba Portege M400
Laptops to be deployed on a wireless cart to be used as a mobile lab in the
High School. The laptops came with a whole bunch of junk installed that we
either didn't need or didn't want our students to use.

I initially uninstalled a lot of stuff from the machines prior to making an
image for deployment. It went fairly well until we dumped an image to a test
machine and tried to startup One Note under a student account. Windows
installer fired up and then it tried to configure Agilix Gobinder Lite.
Since our students are not part of the administrator group the install failed
because they did not have the right privileges. I had to hit cancel about 6
times before One Note started up.

I tried making a new image of a machine with GoBinder uninstalled but it
must hook into one Note somehow because even though it looked like it was
gone, as soon as the test machine was joined to our Student's domain the
machine saw GoBinder again and the same thing happened.

Is there a way to configure One Note not to call GoBinder when it is launched?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

GoBinder and OneNote are definitely not linked together by default.
There must be something in your configuration that causes this. Do you
have CDs for the software you want (incl. Windows)? You prob. should
wipe the harddrive of one of the tablets and install the software you
want cleanly before making an image. I personally can't recall ever
having made an image of a machine that wasn't a clean install.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

I work for a school district and we have our students users and machines
locked down pretty tight. We recently purchased 25 Toshiba Portege M400
Laptops to be deployed on a wireless cart to be used as a mobile lab in the
High School. The laptops came with a whole bunch of junk installed that we
either didn't need or didn't want our students to use.

You should contact your original vendor. Anyone who sold you 25 expensive
tablet PC's should be willing to help you with this. The tie in is
probably due to the method they used to install all these machines in the
first place. It is possible to create what are generically called "delta-
images" or "install packages" to install additional apps on a machine.
This is an image of just what has changed since a specific snapshot was
taken. This allows a manufacturer or network manager to apply one image
for all their machines of a particular model then apply additional images
for the software they want on the machine. It is possible that the
install package they used contained both OneNote and GoBinder in the same
"package." This may have caused Windows to think they were both parts of
one program and tie them together in the list of installed programs.

Therefore, the OEM would be the only one who knows enough about what is
going on behind the scenes to help you through it.

If you have the original install disks (or can create them from files on
the machines) then you MAY be able to completely uninstall both programs
then only install the one you want.

In the future, when you are buying 25 expensive computers you should make
the vendor configure them to your specifications ahead of time. That way
they have to support it in the exact configuration they sold them in and
they can't point the finger at you for changing the configuration.