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That is, if the laptop isn't totally locked down by IT. But knowing school's IT budget that probably isn't the case.
IT "locking down" Laptops often means they just give all power to Microsoft I assume
For us you get a popup that sends a ticket to IT and you have to fill out a reason why you need to do whatever it is you are trying to do. Then you wait like 10 minutes and try again to see if it was approved. If it asks for permission again then you need to assume they rejected it
Are you serious? "Assuming" is the streamline? DAMN!
I remember this kind of shit when I worked at Caterpillar. I always assumed the requested permission messages just disappeared into the void. Of course, I was IT so my requests were usually asking for more than they'd want their help desk staff to have.
Haha I assumed we had like a corporate IT that was just always there approving and denying requests. Until one time I had requested a photo editing app and weeks later I got an email from my local IT guy saying it wasn't going to be approved. I was shocked he responded and shocked that he was the dude that was getting all my angry requests all along lol. I couldn't even install our own companies software to test our products it's insane
Haha crazy. Well SECURITY
I can’t even change the length of time before the screen locks.
One of the first things I do while migrating user to a new PC (or just giving one for newly employed person) is that I disable all useless Microsoft shit automatically starting up in the task manager.