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ps2cho
07-23-05, 01:42 AM
Ok im sick of my stepmom going on my laptop without my permission (she does this and lots more) and turning it off. I have it put on the lowest power and speed settings so its not costing anything more than $2 a month to run.
This is really frustrating because i was encoding a part movie today while i went to Universal Studios as it was gonna take about 7 hours to do (highest quality and compression = a lot of time) and she ruined it because she thinks that it costs $20 a month to run and i cant get through to her.

Is there anyway to lock down windows so it says like enter administrator password to unlock because i've seen this somewhere. I need it to have NO option to shutdown. Only unlock.

Got any ideas?

Thanks, ps2cho
Mr_Fuchs
07-23-05, 01:55 AM
why dont u just take the adapter and battery with u when u leave
ps2cho
07-23-05, 01:59 AM
im sick of my stepmom going on my laptop without my permission (she does this and lots more) and turning it off......
This is really frustrating because i was encoding a part movie today
ninthebin
07-23-05, 03:12 AM
give her $20 to shut her up :)
ps2cho
07-23-05, 11:47 AM
:p im sure that will go down well.

Ok serious posts now :D
tenchi86
07-23-05, 02:47 PM
If you are encoding it could take a lot of power, anyway not really my business. From what I know this is a little tricky, if all you needed was a service to keep running you could just hit ALT+CRT+DEL and click lock computer, and of course have a password set. As far as I know though that will stop the encoding, also go to the screen saver options and turn that off, then set the power button to do nothing(Screensaver/Power/Advanced). So that way she cannot turn it off that way. Finally if you are on XP(im on 2k by the way) I think you can go the the log out screen but have programs still running? If so you could set it to log to the swtich user aco**** after like 10 mins of no use, and then edit the login screen picture to not show a power button. So she wont be able to just click that and log out. Oh and as before of course set your account to have a password.



Edit: I just looked at advanced power config, it looks like you cannot set the power button to do nothing. You may try looking in your bios for it. Or put some glue in it to hold it up haha.
bth
07-23-05, 03:08 PM
This may be a good place to start:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313924
(edit: that's W2K, but I believe the same or similar applies to XP Pro ... not sure about XP Home)

Basically assuming she logs in as a user (not administrator) you can do some restrictions through setting policies...
fight556
07-24-05, 01:31 AM
locking the computer (using ctrl+alt+del and going to lock, or windows key+L) in my experiance won't shut off running apps, I do this all the time at work (2k and xp) Won't prevent the pulling of bat/adapter though as in most things physical access can undo lots of planning and security measures.
TalRW
07-24-05, 01:44 AM
locking the computer (using ctrl+alt+del and going to lock, or windows key+L) in my experiance won't shut off running apps, I do this all the time at work (2k and xp) Won't prevent the pulling of bat/adapter though as in most things physical access can undo lots of planning and security measures.

This is exactly how it works on mine. I tested it cause my aunt was bringing one of my cousin (obnoxious little 7 year old) and I wanted to make sure he didn't use my PC but I wanted to keep folding. So I tried using the alt-ctrl-delete lock and checked my progress waited and checked back later and I was still folding so background apps still work while your PC is locked. So if you do this you will still encode while you are gone. But she could pull out the battery and plug or just manually turn it off with the button.