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If you share your PC with other people, then there’s nothing more annoying than finding new programs installed or old ones removed. What’s more, it’s even worse when you find out that someone has been filling valuable space on your hard drive with their own downloads or files.<\/p>\n
If you’re not a network administrator then the only way to stop this is to install access prevention software. In the case of unauthorised installations and hard drive use, the best solution is Public Access Desktop<\/a> which prevents users having any access to Window’s major control panel components. It also prevents them from adding or removing files from your system without permission. This ‘locked mode’ can be configured to activate at a certain time of day or when a specific user logs on. The only way to unlock it is via an admin password. The unlock dialogue can be triggered in three ways – through a specified hotkey, a combination of keys or double clicking on the toolbar at the base of the screen.<\/p>\n Cybercafe owners will be particularly impressed by Public Access Desktop as it allows you to set a time limit on how long users are able to use a terminal before it automatically shuts down. This is also useful for worried parents who want to ensure their kids are not using the family PC after a certain time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you share your PC with other people, then there’s nothing more annoying than finding new programs installed or old ones removed. What’s more, it’s even worse when you find out that someone has been filling valuable space on your hard drive with their own downloads or files. If you’re not a network administrator then … Continue reading “Prevent others from uninstalling programs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337082,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/337082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}