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[accidental-love.livejournal.com]

a bit off topic, but how can one disable games (spider fucking solitaire, hearts, etc.) on someone's (boss') computer without deleting the program? i want it to look like it's still there, just mysteriously not working.

my boss is one of those ppl who just needs more shit to do, i swear.

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[random-c.livejournal.com]

Replace the executable with something which actually isn't an executable, and rename it to sol.exe or whatever it is.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

If your boss isn't way too savvy, you could always remap the shortcuts.

i think this would work better...

[accidental-love.livejournal.com]

XP isn't letting me delete solitaire. How evil is that. For real.

Remapping the shortcut works. Thanks!

PS my boss is barely computer literate. I have to do her reports for her, she 'breaks' the email once a week, and she's going to have a coronary/stroke when we get our new software in a month.

Re: i think this would work better...

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

If it's XP, just set up software restriction policies. The icons will be there, but won't work.

[drnazo.livejournal.com]

You can install a keylogger in solitaire so it opens with no problem and launches the logger. Then you can replace the executable with a porn dialer or something. He'll likely try and get it fixed which will give you enough time to get into his accounts while he's down and you could gather enough info about him that he would never dream of firing you for anything.

Of course, if it's windows 2000 and you have admin rights, you can take away all rights to access the program from any account including the admin group.

Either way, it should be fun to watch.

hahahah...

[accidental-love.livejournal.com]

we're talking about a 70 year old woman. taking away spider solitaire is enough to ruin her day without adding porn to it.

but that is evil. i like it.

[blasphemy.livejournal.com]

Change the shortcut target to Rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation or rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows and wait for the screams.

[sensrhps.livejournal.com]

its been almost two weeks... what happened with the boss? heh

hahaha...

[accidental-love.livejournal.com]

she came in on the following monday, and around 10:30am i heard "does spider solitaire work on your computer?!"

i replied "i deleted it long long ago, we're not really supposed to have games on the computers..."

i've got her totally convinced that the tech support at corporate did it remotely, and that they can see everything she does on the computer. possible, yes. but not with this company. they're pretty laid back.

:)