Keep the mouse moving!

[Night Train]

Get a really long USB extension lead and take the mouse with you where ever you go.

 

[Arch]

You need one of these, as used by Homer Simpson in a similar situation. Positioned over the Shift key maybe.

I was going to suggest a Newton's Cradle, but they run down eventually.

I like the mouse/mouse idea. Although would it look like they were mating? Would that produce some sort of hideous cyber/terminator mouse?

How about putting the mouse (the computer on, not Fnaar's helpful rodent) on a tray with something that vibrates constantly, so as to joggle the mouse about on the tray.

If only I could think of something that you could turn on, and it would vibrate constantly for a long time....

 

[Ravenbait]

If only I could think of something that you could turn on, and it would vibrate constantly for a long time....

And here was me going to suggest taping an item to the mouse to make it vibrate constantly, if only I could think of something that would do the job...

Sam

 

[amnesia]

Use a wireless mouse and take it with you ?

 

[terry_gardener]

you will more than likely find that the ability to access the power management is not revoked but the shortcut to access it removed.

my suggestion is to right click the desktop and then select new-shortcut under the path just type c:\ and then navigate to the windows-system32 and run the powercfg.exe file, then change the settings.

IT departments normally just remove the means to access a program and not restrict access to it, know this due to working for a IT department.

 

[Arch]

And here was me going to suggest taping an item to the mouse to make it vibrate constantly, if only I could think of something that would do the job...

Sam

And see how it took a couple of women to think of it?

 

[Bman]

Oi.

I'm an IT administrator for multiple companies. Well, I support their infrastructures....

If I find out your account names, I'll disable both of you for account sharing!

Seriously though, why do you need access to his pc?
Do you need access to his files?
Applications installed on it?
Just a Win7 machine as a test?
Network resources or applications?

Why cant you create yourself a local account?
Or request access to the resource you need?

You can't be held responsible for not doing work you cannot do due to IT policies.

Its setup like that for a reason... So the locked down apps/files/etc are accessible by authorised people and logging enabled to record what and when they access it. Account sharing messes all that up.

An IT administrators work is hard enough. Stop account sharing!

Disclaimer: This is all tongue-in-cheek. I dont support your network so I dont really care, but someone will. I could tell you how to disable group policy override on the screensaver. But that'll be too easy. Some of these suggestions are just too innovative!

 

[661-Pete]

And here was me going to suggest taping an item to the mouse to make it vibrate constantly, if only I could think of something that would do the job...

And see how it took a couple of women to think of it?

Laydeezzz please! Remember this is not P&L. (actually I thought of that too, but I could hardly seek 'assistance' from either of my two lady colleagues .... )

Actually the true solution is boring, boring! It turned out that the guy was mistaken in thinking he couldn't disable the screen saver, it was a new computer you see and he hadn't fettled enough! And I wanted to borrow his because it was a desktop and in the right place attached to the equipment, it takes a lot of effort these days to move a PC around the office! All those wires to unplug and plug!

And I tried first with my login but the software wouldn't run because I didn't have admin privileges on his computer. So to save time we used his.

Anyway, I found the bug in my equipment, a few minutes after I put up the OP. So I didn't need the computer anymore. And it wasn't my bug, it was someone else's. So I was chuffed.

 

[jay clock]

So he is fine about exposing company systems to illegal access, but not about revealing the pw? odd!

My suggestion is he gives you the pw then changes it at the end of each day

 

[guitarpete247]

And here was me going to suggest taping an item to the mouse to make it vibrate constantly, if only I could think of something that would do the job...

Sam

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit (Chas and Dave like)

 

[661-Pete]

Nothing illegal. We knew we were allowed to change the settings, just that we thought (wrongly) that we had to get an IT guy to do it. And to get IT to do anything, you first have to call the IT centre (wherever it may be), then you get issued with a job ticket, then you wait for the ticket to be approved, then you get put in the queue, then you get a call-out within 6 hours if you're senior management and it's software, within 12 hours if you're not senior management, within 48 hours if it's hardware, within.... you get my drift? And we don't share our passwords. It's not ettiquette. If I knew someone's password I could read their online payslip. If I just use their computer, I can't.

Now can we please get back to mouse-shaking solutions (although no-one will beat Fnaar)? Oh how I wish I still had the old Meccano! I'm sure I could have conjured up something with part no. 45, part no. 87, part no. 123, part no. ... etc.... (*sigh*)...

 

[ian turner]

If I knew someone's password I could read their online payslip

Hmm advanced security there then
Never understood the paranoia about folks finding out what you get paid. The only folks this benefits are your employers who can maintain unfair pay differentiation. Once sat next to a bloke who got irate because he found the payslip printer was making indentations so you could reveal the amounts by scribbling over it with a pencil.

 

[Fnaar]

Best answer of the lot, by a light-year!!!

Fnaar, you are going in my sig line, whether you like it or not!

I'm honoured 661... I've never been sig-lined before

(to my knowledge). Don't forget to give the real mouse some cheese.

 

[661-Pete]

Don't forget to give the real mouse some cheese.

Thanks for reminding me.