Dear Geek,
While I’m on lunch at work, my co-workers think it’s funny to upload silly photos to the background on my computer. Is there a way I can prevent them from doing this?
Sincerely,
Tired of the One Direction and My Little Pony photos
Dear Tired,
I understand your pain, unfortunately, I have had a similar experience where my family decided it would be funny to put a bunch of Justin Beiber songs on my iTunes. The easiest way to prevent this, as long as your company is alright with it, is to password protect your computer for when you are away.
It’s very easy to password protect your computer. First, you go to “Settings”, through the start button, and then click “Control Panel”. Here, you should see a “Display” icon or option, which you should click on. In the Display Properties window, click on the tab labelled “Screen Saver”. Here it will give you a bunch of options for your screen saver, from the kind of screen saver, to how long your computer can stay unattended before it goes into screen saver mode, and needs a password. There will be a box beside “Password Protected”, you’ll want to check that. If you are using Windows 2000 or later, it will automatically use the password you use to login to your computer when you first turn it on.
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