TECH:Win95

["Deborah M. Cooke" <dcooke@PEN.K12.VA.US>]

        Our library has Dell optiplex and Compaq Deskpro 5100
computers with Windows 95 and Fortress 101. We are running our catalog and
Accelerated Reader 95% of the time. The problem we have is that
the students will open either the catalog or AR or both several
times on a computer without even realizing it. They do this by
 hitting the little "Flying Window" symbol key near the
space bar, which takes them back to the desktop, and then
rather than clicking on the toolbar at the bottom to reopen the
program they click on the icon and open the program a second
time. I think they also do it by impatiently clicking the mouse
too many times and the program will just keep opening over and
over. There are times I glance at the toolbar and see 10-15
little boxes down there of the same program open. Of course,
when we start havingthe programs freeze up, the first thing I
do is check all the stations to see which ones have the
programs open more then once.
        Is there any way to program either Windows 95 or
Fortress 101 to tell the computer not to open the same program
twice?
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Deborah M. Cooke  Salem Church Middle School  Chesterfield County
(suburban Richmond) Virginia  USA  dcooke@pen.k12.va.us    *

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