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Old 29 June 2010, 12:21 PM
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We have a screen in the canteen at work which runs a powerpoint presentation. Every morning we come into work, the computer has been used for looking at facebook, watching footie etc. etc.
Is there any way to lock the computer into a position where it is running the presentation and requires a password to stop it?
Old 29 June 2010, 12:28 PM
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We used to take the mouse and keyboard off the PC, and use remote control software to connect to it.

If you dont want to do that, or cant, how about a locked cabinet for the PC and keyboard and mouse.

All those will stop the buggers

hope that helps


Steve

PS, if you wanted to get really tricky, you could remove the PC and put it in the server room, and send the signal to the screen using video over IP.
Not cheap, and slightly over kill, but at least you could clear up the canteen by removing the box and just having the screen standalone

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Old 29 June 2010, 05:39 PM
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**** me - it's just occured to me - i control the pc from my own remotely so there is no need for it to have a mouse and keyboard
Good work
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