u/Crusader_2050

Greetings, we have 4 "tv's" in our head office that used to display various information pages, they haven't worked for quite a few years now..

One in reception had info on the building and things like LTA records etc underneath a Sky News feed.

Two of them were in different workshops displaying production schedules intermixed with "case studies" pages ( for the "look what we can do" presentation to potential clients when they were shown round )

The fourth ( which I only realised was there recently ) was similar to the first one but in the upstairs open office area..

.. which is a long winded intro into what I would like help with..

I've recently been made the supervisor of one of those workshops and would like to get the production schedule working again.

The TV's are Samsung and apparently use MagicInfo as the display software..

They are no longer allowed on our network as they are Windows XP and our IT department have taken anything not running Windows 11 off it..

I have no idea how MagicInfo works or if there is a Windows 11 version that can be run on a mini-pc?

Whoever set up the original system some 13 years ago is long gone and I would like to find some decent tutorials on how to make it work..

The production schedule used to just look at an Excel sheet with the data in it, I know where that is on the network..

From what I've read there's a server side part to it and then the display part that puts the pages on the screens.. is that right?

My recently new mouse ( about 1 1/2 months old ) just ate through its first set of batteries I think.. ( it started stuttering and freezing ).

I put a fresh set in but I expected more than a month and a half "use" ( 5-7 hours use per day during the week, 12-16 hours a day at the weekend ).. some of it gaming, some of it surfing and some of it just sitting there while I watch stuff..

I put in energizer max AA's... ( it takes 2 ) ..

in contrast, my mouse for my work laptop has had the same single AA in it now for nearly 12 months and is still going strong.. ( though that's only 9 hours a day, 3 days a week )..

Is there a better option for the batteries? will the mouse function ok on the reduced voltage of a rechargable? ( 1.2v as opposed to 1.5v )?