I have a Windows 2000 question.

[Siddhartha]

Where I work, they are upgrading everyone to Windows 2000. With this OS they are able to restrict installation of software on to individual workstations. Is there an easy work around for this? I would like to install WinAmp, ACDC, and anything else that would help me do my work with my system without going through the bureaucracy.


Thanks

 

[Murpheeee]

Make a friend in your IT dept.....beer usually works, donuts are also good

Get them to make you an administrator of your PC

 

[Nothinman]

No.

 

[stash]

Sorry, you do not own the PC you use at work (most likely). Therefore, you are at the whim of the IT dept.

However, since neither of those apps is particularly sinister, if you go through the bureacracy (or make a friend, as Murpheee suggests), you shouldn't have a problem. Although, with ACDSee you might, since it would have to be licensed. Winamp is freeware.

If they still say no, them's the breaks.

 

[debugger]

Well, I finally got Administrator privileges for my office workstation so I can now install anything I want... and they're managed by a subcontractor (a big global IT services company with a 3-letter name that starts with an "E", and end with an "S")! It took alot of hard work, but here's how I did it: Constant pestering and service calls because my PC didn't have a certain font installed, the keyboard driver was not the one I needed, I wanted to have 1280 instead of 1024 on my 19" monitor, etc. etc. etc. After a while, the guys at the help desk got fed up, and said something like "... OK, buddy, you know computers, and we shouldn't have to send somebody down to your cube across the street to help you when you don't really need it, especially at 4:55 in the afternoon when its -20 outside, and especially when this service call is non-billable because, contractually, we owe you this service..." So there you have it. No beer, no donuts, no cash payments or blackmail. Just good old fashioned annoyance. Try it

 

[MedicBob]

LOL ...annoyance.

Personally I know an Network Admin that would love to have someone like you calling him. he has shown me that he can lock down a box so all you can do is log on and WMP opens and plays Distrubed "the Sickness."

1st try friendship then annoying them.

 

[stash]

Well, I finally got Administrator privileges for my office workstation so I can now install anything I want... and they're managed by a subcontractor (a big global IT services company with a 3-letter name that starts with an "E", and end with an "S")! It took alot of hard work, but here's how I did it: Constant pestering and service calls because my PC didn't have a certain font installed, the keyboard driver was not the one I needed, I wanted to have 1280 instead of 1024 on my 19" monitor, etc. etc. etc. After a while, the guys at the help desk got fed up, and said something like "... OK, buddy, you know computers, and we shouldn't have to send somebody down to your cube across the street to help you when you don't really need it, especially at 4:55 in the afternoon when its -20 outside, and especially when this service call is non-billable because, contractually, we owe you this service..." So there you have it. No beer, no donuts, no cash payments or blackmail. Just good old fashioned annoyance. Try it

That's probably because EDS is preparing for their inevitable restructuring, and they want to offload as much work as possible onto the users, to prepare them for life without an IT department

🙂

 

[Saltin]

How many times do we have to read these posts? It's against the rules in the Networking forum to enquire about circumventing your company's / school's network. Why isnt it likewise here?

 

[bozo1]

Doing what you want is cause for instant termination at my company.