I really really hate the computers at the school's library!1. They're brand-new running Windows XP. But they're crappy Gateways
2. They have disabled the "run" command, the right mouse button, all the Windows games, NOTEPAD, PAINT, WORDPAD, and they all try to run Office setup (which the student accounts cannot do) upon trying to run Word or any other Office app
3. They have all the InfectiveX controls running in Internet Explorer with no apparent way to make them any more secure
4. The refresh rate on the screens is set to something like 60 hz O_o? Color depth is stuck at 16 bit color and they're all 15" CRTs
5. There's 256MB RAM in them all, but they're running Service Pack 2 and tons of other excrement so even if you open a My Computer window it's slower because it goes to the swap file.
When I put my USB thumb drive into the computer, it set it up but half my files disappeared
and when I tried to "safely remove" it, it said it was "busy" so I punched (literally) the reset button and yanked the drive out.I'm thinking I should use my D.S.Linux boot CD (I use it on all the classroom PCs, even though they're completely unlocked and I have the admin passwords for them anyways
) and run AbiWord and Firefox from it. Or maybe I should download Portable Firefox and Portable AbiWord?Anyone know how to get around some of the "security" crap on these things? (tried a .bat file, no dice.
) Or should I just use a boot CD to get them up to a functional level?In any case, rant about school computers here!
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