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I know that anybody who is handy with a computer detests microsoft and windows (which is most of you) but for me it is a blessing.
I can click on something the shape of an envelope to get to my mail. I click on the printer to print, the house for home etc.
What I like best is what you hate most.
(or hate best?) When I try to do something complicated like deleting a file or creating a folder the computer invariably helps me by asking me such things as : Are you sure? Y/N Do you want to continue? Y/N. This gives me time to pause and think it over.
Enter the toddler. She uses the keyboard like a set of drums, bashing at it with the mouse. So before you know it the letters on the screen are to small to read, or internet is disabled, the computer is shutting down and telling me there will be a loss of important data and I am in despair.
Enter the toddler mode. WHATEVER happens, I can always go back to before. Like undo, step by step, untill everything is normal again.
Giggles Computer Funtime for Baby
http://www.giggles.net/home.php
As an alternative to changing all your stuff to allow for a toddler, how about just running some custom software that reacts to bashing keys in an age-appropriate way? [jutta, May 23 2006]
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Like most. Windows can roll back to its last functioning state, can it not? |
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Huh? What? sleep? Oh, ah! Yeah good link. She loves the computer, can never start to young. |
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Surely Windows lets you create a user profile with no privileges to change anything? |
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"Like most. Windows can roll back to its last functioning state, can it not?" |
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That would be just before Windows is installed, right? |
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And I know that you can create a "No Rights" logon. My company does that for our communications machines. |
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//And I know that you can create a "No Rights" logon. //
She is faster than lightning. Before you know it the mouse is grabbed and bashed on the keyboard or some keys (some of which have a function other then typing). And besides that would mean that Zeno has elaborate knowledge of how a computer really works, which he doesn't. I hold my finger close to the escape button which works fine, mostly. |
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I used to own a 'bloodthirsty' game
called carmageddon, which essentially
involved smashing up cars and running
people down, hence an abundance of
blood. The genius was that it had a
'fluffy bunny' mode which was activated
upon a certain button press on the
keyboard. All blood would disappear
instantly, then return upon a further
press. |
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I agree with [phlish], a key-combo could
be used to block out all other key
configurations. Would also annoy the
hell out of co-workers if they didn't
know the combo. |
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[win]+L? Works for me.
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stop that honey, daddy is working
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aww, that's nice sweetie <presses power button and goes outside to play> <remembers to leave [+] behind, though> |
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Are the system restore points not sufficient for this then? |
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So /"A panic button that fixes my computer"/ essentially. |
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Also, how does it know when toddler mode ends? |
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It ends in kindergartner mode of course. |
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