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    My GF and downloading software.

    How can I block my other half from downloading and installing software on my machine.

    Every day I come home to find another f-cking software application sitting in memory. This time it's software for a f-cking calender - why she couldnt have knocked it up in Excel I don't know.

    Anyone any ideas?
    What happens in General, stays in General.
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    #2
    Originally posted by MarillionFan
    How can I block my other half from downloading and installing software on my machine.

    Every day I come home to find another f-cking software application sitting in memory. This time it's software for a f-cking calender - why she couldnt have knocked it up in Excel I don't know.

    Anyone any ideas?

    Don't let her use it?
    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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      #3
      Windows XP?
      McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
      Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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        #4
        Print out some pictures of kittens and put them next to the computer to distract her. Like from here:
        http://www.innocentenglish.com/cute-animals/index.html

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          #5
          Have Goback trundling along in the background and every time you use the PC rewind back to the last time you used the machine.

          She'll never know why her downloads disappear...

          Sorted.
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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            #6
            Originally posted by MarillionFan
            This time it's software for a f-cking calender
            Only a calender - you lucky, lucky bastard.

            My ex used to down load viruses, spyware, etc. Wouldn't use her own because my machines were faster. Always getting arsey when I tried to explain that it was my/ower livelihood she was wrecking.
            Drivel is my speciality

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              #7
              My Missus downloads load of freeware stupid games onto ours from Google. Fortunately we have our own laptops.
              bloggoth

              If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
              John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                #8
                Password the BIOS

                HTH


                Next

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                  #9
                  Knock up a little app that pops up whenever she uses the internet that tells her that Friends is on E4.


                  She'll be off to watch "The episode when... (insert banal episode details here) in no time at all.

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                    #10
                    Bought the GF a laptop, problem solved.
                    Me, me, me...

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