If you can't behave, I will take it away from everyone

[EvilEmpryss]

I got to this point and I just pictured the angel of death hovering over the machine...

I got to that point and wondered just how much crap this woman was saving on her computer (or how small her hard drive was). I'm a major picture packrat, and I do a LOT of photoshop work, and even with my music library I still have tons of room on my hard drive.

I'd like to know if the IT guys bothered to see just what this woman was hoarding on her hard drive before they reformatted it.

[lordlundar]

Eventually her computer gave her some warnings about running out of memory and needed to reduce the amount of crap on her PC. She decided that it was her duty, not to call the techies, but to delete some unused stuff.

I got to this point and I just pictured the angel of death hovering over the machine...

[nicolecj]

I think we have the 'there are hundreds of workers, so since it is easier, we are releasing an update that will lock them all down... like a biblical plague bwahahaha' type of IT department. Due to 'favortism' complaints what is done to one must be done to all.

So I will kiss a$$ and try to get them to ease up a little... Oh please relent gods of BITS (BITS is the bureau of information and technology systems).

I understand why they did it, but I don't have to like it!

[Andara Bledin]

I'm on the "don't lock her computer down, 'cause she knows what she's doing" list, myself.

^-.-^

[fma_fanatic]

Yep. We had that happen last year. Only a select few of us were able to get our computers saved from it because the PC Services/IT manager knows we're not going to screw things up.

[EvilEmpryss]

I wish you luck in getting that lock-down lifted. I had the same thing in the military with the IT guys.

If you work hard, praise their expertise, and promise to sacrifice your mother's entrails to the god of Intel in the depths of Dell should you ever do so much as think about clicking on an inappropriate email link, they might ease up on your restrictions.

[Daskinor]

Yea the users are not even allowed to push the 'start' button here.

[MoonCat]

See, I'm the opposite. "What's that? No idea. Better leave it alone!"

[nicolecj]

So... I am not the tech support, but recently they locked down our computers and i just found out why.

Background: we save ALOT of documents and other crap everyday. We have servers where we are supposed to save this too so other people can access it as well. Kind of a giant file sharing/ backup system. We are not supposed to save on our computers unless it is a work in progress that is not supposed to be posted yet so we don't clutter up the machines. We get new machines every few years.

Okay, so I guess a lady did not get that memo, and it turns out she had been saving the documents on line, so we all saw them as we were supposed to, but unbeknownst to us she had also saved a backup copy of EVERY SINGLE ITEM on her computer since we got the last round of new computers.

Eventually her computer gave her some warnings about running out of memory and needed to reduce the amount of crap on her PC. She decided that it was her duty, not to call the techies, but to delete some unused stuff. I don't know where this idea came from. She went into program files, and ran across the windows folder. She went in and deleted the entire start up application because she figured that since she did not know what it was she did not need it. I have no idea what else she erased, but I know that the computer ended up having to be reformatted and returned without a single document saved on it.

As a result, our friendly techies have released upon us poor minions a lockdown so severe that you can't even change the time display in the corner of the computer.

I can only hope to eventualy convince them that I am not a complete moron and get the lock down lifted... just a little