Here is the story. At the place where I work at (paint factory) we all share a computer in each department. Most of the guys there are over 50 and have never used a computer before and have great difficulty understanding the easiest of concepts(such as minimizing vs. closing). We use them mostly for printing labels and entering start and finish times in the database.
The is one guy who does everything he possibly can to be a thorn in EVERYBODY's side. No matter what you do or think he does the exact opposite just to be a dick. It is actually amazing the lengths he will go to ruin things or us. he even single handedly managed to cause our paychecks to arrive a day later for the rest of eternity. I'm tellin you this guy is no good. He sews at the drop of a hat and Kickin his ass is out of the question due to the fact i need my job.
Back to the story at hand. He knows a little to good bit about computers. Every single day, he comes in and sets the taskbar to hide, so you have to hold the mouse over it to see it. This causes some issues with the older guys, and annoys me. I do not want to take this to IT, it would be more fun to bust his balls on my own.
Here is what i did. I went into MMC and created a group policy snap in. In there I was able to set the taskbar so that it's properties cannot be changed. LOL:sneaky Svaed it and it solved the problem.
It took him exactly one month to figure out what I did. The trouble is that since neither of us have administrative powers, the snap in was there for anyone to modify, you just had to know what it is and where it is, which by the way is hard to find if you are not familiar with it. I was overjoyed to be a thorn in his side for the month, knowing it was driving him absolutley crazy to see"this has been disabled, please see your account administrator."
I guess he has a brother that is pretty wise on windows and was able to help him get it figured out what I did.
So the question is..... How can I set this property and have it be unchangable without admin powers?
Can I hide the snap in in a folder that I set permissions for my login only to read/modify? Any other poosible ideas??????
HELP!:rant
The is one guy who does everything he possibly can to be a thorn in EVERYBODY's side. No matter what you do or think he does the exact opposite just to be a dick. It is actually amazing the lengths he will go to ruin things or us. he even single handedly managed to cause our paychecks to arrive a day later for the rest of eternity. I'm tellin you this guy is no good. He sews at the drop of a hat and Kickin his ass is out of the question due to the fact i need my job.
Back to the story at hand. He knows a little to good bit about computers. Every single day, he comes in and sets the taskbar to hide, so you have to hold the mouse over it to see it. This causes some issues with the older guys, and annoys me. I do not want to take this to IT, it would be more fun to bust his balls on my own.
Here is what i did. I went into MMC and created a group policy snap in. In there I was able to set the taskbar so that it's properties cannot be changed. LOL:sneaky Svaed it and it solved the problem.
It took him exactly one month to figure out what I did. The trouble is that since neither of us have administrative powers, the snap in was there for anyone to modify, you just had to know what it is and where it is, which by the way is hard to find if you are not familiar with it. I was overjoyed to be a thorn in his side for the month, knowing it was driving him absolutley crazy to see"this has been disabled, please see your account administrator."
I guess he has a brother that is pretty wise on windows and was able to help him get it figured out what I did.
So the question is..... How can I set this property and have it be unchangable without admin powers?
Can I hide the snap in in a folder that I set permissions for my login only to read/modify? Any other poosible ideas??????
HELP!:rant
