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Post #151,340
by Another Scott
4/15/04 11:04:59 PM
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New I think there are only 2 solutions.
1) Talk to the IT support people at your employer and explain your situation.

2) Install BootIt-NG (or similar) and install another OS on a separate partition that you control. (I'd vote for this one myself.)

Best of luck.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #151,374
by inthane-chan
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4/16/04 9:01:13 AM
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New Agreed.
Luckily, making your account an administrator is as simple as having somebody with admin rights on the machine type:

"net localgroup administrator <domain><username> /add"

at a command prompt on the machine.

Be careful before you walk into this, though - I don't remember the details of how your laptop got on their domain, but some admin types get nervous when somebody walks in with their own machine. I've recently been through this with a contractor here at work, really got down on their case about security big-time.
Nobody wins in a butter eating contest
     My "employer" has disabled my USB flash drive - (lincoln) - (24) - April 11, 2004, 06:56:58 PM EDT
         Mapped any network drives lately? - (inthane-chan) - (17) - April 11, 2004, 07:27:21 PM EDT
             Yes, but not by choice - (lincoln) - (16) - April 11, 2004, 09:11:45 PM EDT
                 XP/Win2k? - (inthane-chan) - (15) - April 11, 2004, 10:11:24 PM EDT
                     Myself, I avoide Z - (Andrew Grygus) - April 11, 2004, 10:14:56 PM EDT
                     you solved my problem - (lincoln) - (13) - April 13, 2004, 10:12:50 AM EDT
                         Have you tried changing to the "local machine" domain? - (inthane-chan) - (12) - April 13, 2004, 10:43:43 AM EDT
                             "local machine" domain - (lincoln) - (1) - April 14, 2004, 12:59:03 PM EDT
                                 Try unplugging it at work - (orion) - April 14, 2004, 03:56:08 PM EDT
                             Your tip didn't work - (lincoln) - (9) - April 14, 2004, 08:16:32 PM EDT
                                 They must have removed it - (orion) - (8) - April 14, 2004, 11:30:59 PM EDT
                                     Don't do any of this, Linc. - (pwhysall) - (7) - April 15, 2004, 01:46:12 AM EDT
                                         Can I create an Admin account - (lincoln) - (6) - April 15, 2004, 11:01:23 PM EDT
                                             Who owns the hardwre? - (Silverlock) - (3) - April 15, 2004, 11:04:21 PM EDT
                                                 Me - (lincoln) - (2) - April 16, 2004, 03:03:08 PM EDT
                                                     And employers wonder why people aren't loyal to them. -NT - (jake123) - April 16, 2004, 03:37:55 PM EDT
                                                     I would advise to sit tight - (Arkadiy) - April 16, 2004, 05:06:58 PM EDT
                                             I think there are only 2 solutions. - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 15, 2004, 11:04:59 PM EDT
                                                 Agreed. - (inthane-chan) - April 16, 2004, 09:01:13 AM EDT
         Re: My "employer" has disabled my USB flash drive - (qstephens) - (5) - April 12, 2004, 06:05:51 AM EDT
             If that is the case - (orion) - (4) - April 14, 2004, 03:54:35 PM EDT
                 now this sucks - (lincoln) - (3) - April 14, 2004, 08:53:11 PM EDT
                     Your employer has a help desk/tech support area? - (Meerkat) - April 14, 2004, 09:44:13 PM EDT
                     Settle down - (orion) - (1) - April 14, 2004, 10:24:06 PM EDT
                         He doesn't have XP Home. - (inthane-chan) - April 14, 2004, 11:08:58 PM EDT

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