AHHH! I had to put some programs in the witness protection program!

[Demon-Xanth]

Okay, recently the company I work for "merged" (read: was taken over by) another company, either the other company's head of MIS had a bug up his a$$ or just is plan authoritarian. But now everyone has to have an official company background for thier computer and they went around hunting down "games and unauthorized software" while making every desktop "standard" (read: default Win95 grey and size)...


...granted I ended up okay, one of the EE's got pissed because they deleted ProE's code software and made all the ProE installs dead. This has apparantly happened a few times. My boss just about shot someone because he couldn't even get into his computer....


...so here I am, wondering what the best way to hide very useful but potentially vulnerable programs from instant deletion? I've already removed odvious shortcuts and removed thier entries from the add/remove programs box.

 

[Harrald]

Try a second HD. Or even better a zip drive. Or Burn all the software you need onto a CD and bring it with you.

Hope that helps

 

[DAM]

define usefull programs? then we'll take it from there.





dam()

 

[THELAIR]

how do you rmeove a program from the "add/remove" programs list box in either win98/2000 without actulaly deleting hte program?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Harrald: the PSU tends to kill HDs, it's managed to take down 3
DAM: GIMP, Pegasus Mail, Partminer, Powertoys.
Thelair: Powertoys, TweakUI in particular.

 

[MissingLinc]

Man, where I come from, I am constantly fighting stupid crap like that. They put SMS on everyone's computer so they can INVENTORY EVRYTHING on every computer and MANIPULATE EVERYTHING on every computer...

...but a little creativity seems to keep me ahead of them.


[Big Brother is watching you]

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Well, atleast when they went around deleting everyone's music I handily had mine in my possession on CD-r