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Fraser	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 11:56 PM So I moved out with a couple friends. We (all three of us) use my computer. Before they did, I had about two thirds of my computer space free, and now, for some reason, I have about one fifth of it free. One of them is a computer dude, so Im guessing he's dl'ing tons of junk programs. It's slowing down my freaking computer! Is there any way to make it so other users cant dl stuff?
tsand20175	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 12:11 AM ...on a Mac with OSX I believe you can. You as administrator can even assign them their own desktops with password access. I think you can restrict downloads....on a Windows system I don't know.
leedsquietman	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 12:16 AM you can definately do this within windows xp, you set the privileges. You need to set up guest accounts for the others that do not include administrator rights. Fix it all in the control panel. That and a big baseball bat to the head for those who abuse your computer
GeneHilbert	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 12:26 AM I don't use XP but I thought I read somewhere that you could roll back to a specific date and restore your system as it was then.....?
leedsquietman	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 12:50 AM good point, system restore sometimes works. Other suggestion, go and buy a cheap 2nd hand P4 2 Ghz for like 150-200 dollars with a gig DDR (heck even 512megs under Linux) canadian or something and load it up with a Linux. It will run faster than XP and the virii/spyware situation will be remedied. OpenOffice reads microsoft files and you can export in microsoft format, you can get Mozilla Thunderbird for email and firefox or konqueror for web browsing, you can also use xmms for winamp like playback of audio media files and audacity/ardour/rosegarden free music programs. So long as you're not using wifi it usually works out great (and is good to run dual boot in case windows does what it always will do at some point and that is go t*ts up. You'll still have access to email and such then)
imemine	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 3:08 PM TELL THEM TO GET THERE OWN DAMN MACHINE!
Veracohr	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 5:42 PM Talk to them and ask them not to fill your drive with shit. In the end that will be less hassle than covertly prohibiting their ability to download.
Orion	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 5:44 PM i have windows xp and you can roll back to a specific date and restore your system.
shadowself	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 6:22 PM System restore won't delete files that have been downloaded. In XP, you can set a disk space quota for each user: http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2005/10/20/create-a-custom-disk-quota-in-windows-xp/
Fraser	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 9:02 PM System restore wont delete all the downloads... And... ARR. My roomy hacked into my account, which was the only admin account, made me a freaking limited account, and himself an admin. Oh... I got something for him... By by Bev's account....
Fraser	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 9:10 PM Um... I meant bye... Anyways... yeah... that didnt work. Im just gonna hide the power cord to the comp, when he gets home get him to switch it back, and Ill delete his account, and ban him from my comp. Frigin idiot... Does anybody know of a way I can hack into... well... my own computer?
Kalos	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 9:50 PM Would entering into safe mode work? Then you could change the password in the admin account.
shadowself	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 11:15 PM @Fraser Try at your own risk: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305
Fraser	Date: April 2, 2007 @ 11:20 PM Ok... went into safemode, deleted his account. All is good... for now.
Veracohr	Date: April 3, 2007 @ 10:44 PM Sounds like you got some shitty ass roomates. Better find new ones.
Svensta	Date: April 5, 2007 @ 10:31 AM Yes the problem isn't your data storage or your OS. It is your 'friends'.
blacklieder	Date: April 5, 2007 @ 1:44 PM So this is your computer? Send 'em to the library...
Opossum	Date: April 5, 2007 @ 9:46 PM On 3rd Apr 2008, Veracohr said: Sounds like you got some shitty ass roomates. Better find new ones. This is the correct answer.
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 12, 2007 @ 3:21 PM Heh... how about: Replace with laptop. - This way you can take it with you. Removing the lead is pointless, spares are cheap. Over here, some older kettle leads were identical to PC power leads. Arsenic in roomies' drinks. - Only drawback is nobody to dig the grave and the sudden increase in bills.
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 12, 2007 @ 3:22 PM nobody to help dig... unless of course you are an experienced digger... not that i want to know
Intergalacti...	Date: April 12, 2007 @ 5:47 PM kill them and quick
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 9:57 PM I wonder how many people open this thread, thinking it's to do with a problem in the downstairs department? (Saint, Moam, Mojosnake)
Mojosnake	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 11:18 PM knows me pretty well
arthur15	Date: April 17, 2007 @ 9:03 AM Well...I would tel em to ^%#$ off but if that doesn't work... Hide the plug...if they find it/buy new idk
DeadraveN	Date: April 18, 2007 @ 11:11 PM take naked pictures of your friends' mothers.. and set them as your desktop. next time they log on your problem will either be solved, or at the very least, the situation will become more entertaining..
Bigmark35	Date: May 3, 2007 @ 7:37 PM tell them to get their own damn computers
pog	Date: May 4, 2007 @ 4:14 AM Install linux, heavily password it... even with the passwords, they prolly won't be able to install any crapware
TameasDust	Date: May 4, 2007 @ 12:23 PM Introduce them to either secondlife or Rappelz ... then buy yourself a new computer and hide it
TameasDust	Date: May 4, 2007 @ 12:27 PM actually if the guy wants to be an A-hole ... get your computer formated and reinstall what you want ... put anythin you want to save somewhere else first ... then wipe the hard drive ..
TameasDust	Date: May 4, 2007 @ 12:36 PM better yet ... put what you want to save elsewhere ... like on some site or burn it to cd/dvd take the computer to a repair shop ... take out the old hard drive ... put in a new hard drive ... install the OS .. linux get lots of programs from pog give your former friend the hard drive ... after you have bashed it with a sledge hammer 50 times
pog	Date: May 5, 2007 @ 5:48 AM Run linux with a uber hard theme like blackbox, and then uninstall all programs that aren't text based. Hell, I even surf dmusic with lynx these days (text based browser)
pog	Date: May 5, 2007 @ 6:08 AM Or run vista like this