Thread: Annoying Roommate

To change back the AM and PM settings:

1. Travel to following key in registry editor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\
2. Now select the 'International' key in left pane and search for
the following two entries in right pane of registry editor.
s1159 - for changing AM
s2359 - for changing PM
3. Once you have found this entries now double click it to change
the text.

With firefox,it sounds like he's made your user profile read only, but without sitting in front of the computer myself, its hard to tell. Probably the easiest solution at this stage is to reinstall firefox.

As for your roommate, what age is he? 12? Easiest solution to him is to simply tell him that if he messes with your computer again, he won't be a roommate for very much longer. Don't know about you, but my computer contains plenty of personal information, I don't want anyone, roommate or otherwise, messing with it. Failing that, a format of his harddrive will do the trick...

Don;t format the hard drive - just remove it when he is out !

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Don;t format the hard drive - just remove it when he is out !

I think he meant format the roommate's hdd.

Bridge the jumper for the keyboard lock.
amazing how many people it catches out.

If you get the chance, (and feel like acting 12 )

Take a screenshot of his desktop,
set the screenshot as the desktop background,
then hide all his shortcut's, folders, icons etc on the desktop.

"keyboard lock"

Do they still have those??

thats just pure evil

Originally Posted by TimNZ

If you get the chance, (and feel like acting 12 )

Take a screenshot of his desktop,
set the screenshot as the desktop background,
then hide all his shortcut's, folders, icons etc on the desktop.

Used to do that to co-workers (In IT) who would leave their desktops open - taught them to always lock the work station. *Hint, hint!*

Second thing is remove any user access he has to your PC & set your self a secure password (6 to 8 letters, numbers, & symbols) and keep your PC locked down.

As for pay back - you could rename his user profile found in c:\documents & settings\username - by logging in as another user with admin rights to his PC - this will re-create a profile setting his desktop & email back to defaults

you could mess with the startup so it loops, could unplug a hard drive or change the booting options in the bios, or even better - change boot options & place a windows CD\DVD in his drive & set it to boot off that drive it wil look like windows is reinstalling it self.

if he has any data shares that you have write access to - change the permissions to your user account only on the file security & then hide them from his user account

Google is your friend for how to do this stuff


last one - search pirate bay for CBT IT training video's & learn some stuff from the ethical hackers course

Originally Posted by RaZz0R

...you could mess with the startup so it loops, could unplug a hard drive or change the booting options in the bios, or even better - change boot options & place a windows CD\DVD in his drive & set it to boot off that drive it wil look like windows is reinstalling it self.

Sometimes Windows does this all by itself...