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It seems to me that the guy who left his PC unprotected is at least equally
at fault.
BTW I am not that Peter.
Peter
>
> My cube neighbor used to leave his PC unprotected (he hates
> screensavers, and he sometimes forgets to explicitly lock the
> desktop when he walks away).
>
> Another office-mate spent about an hour capturing the first
> fellow's desktop, sizing the image to fill the entire screen,
> moving the Windows tool-bar offscreen (by fiddling with the
> picture controls on his monitor), messing with his Windows
> startup sequence, etc., etc.
<snip> As a result, John came in, sat down, and found his PC "frozen".
> He didn't realize that he was just clicking on a static image
> of his desktop and his icons and his toolbar.
> Peter finally relented and gave him the list of all that had
> been modified. John's productivity suffered slightly that
> day, but our manager had a good laugh. Of course, Peter is
> no longer with us...
>
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