Believe it or not, even I get toasted out with the Internet ocassionally. As witnessed by my periodic dissapearances from time to time. Usually, I will have company over or be seriously addicted to a game. There is one thing about having house-guests that baffles me to this very day. Why does everyone want to be on MY computer? It never fails, I have 6 functional computers in my house and just let me move out of my chair and there is an 82% chance that when I return, someone will have taken over my beloved machine. What’s up with that?
July 1, 2005
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I don’t recall you ever disappearing until one set time and then you did so ever after.
Ah, what you miss.
I have experienced the puter thing with guests, but I only have one PC…so, I am rather baffled in a house of six of them why yours is hijacked.
There is an easy way around that, password protect it?
Booby trap it with a water pail from above? Green slime?
C’mon Mike, get creative!
Comment by Xerraire — July 5, 2005 @ 12:06 pm
I am almost ashamed to admit this Barb, but I’m not sure I know how to password protect in the XP OS. With Win 95, 98 I always used the option with the screensaver. You know, the mouse is moved and it prompts for a password. That option is no longer available with XP. I know that you can assign a user password but what is to prevent someone from just logging on as a guest or something? I suppose I’ll have to research it.
Comment by Night Owl — July 5, 2005 @ 6:55 pm
Update Barb…
Ok, I think I have this figured out. I deleted all accounts on the computer except my own and password protected it. Now I just have to remember to log off everytime I leave my seat.
Comment by Night Owl — July 5, 2005 @ 8:26 pm