I createed a listing of free software to install on laptops. I installed and tested these packages and they all work well. Included are things like Google Earth and OpenOffice. I've also included packages like ClamWin, a free anti-virus package and SpyBot, a free anti-spyware program. I would suggest installing all of these on your laptops.

In Forest Grove, they will configure one laptop with all MS security updates and all the packages they want to install and then make an image of that laptop hard drive. This image can then be replicated to all the other laptops. This proces is called drive imaging. There are several software packages that will let you do this including Symantec Nortan Ghost, Lan Desk and even a free tool called G4U.