Making someone remember to lock their computer through negative reinforcement

[TheAnimus]

Running out of ideas fin, no need to be so bitter, always time for a good ole fashioned lemon party!

What was it that got set on hairies PC as his default homepage that time? I honestly can't remember it was so long ago.

Failing that the TROLOLOLOLOLOL song might work, make it the system sound for ANY action.

[Deadbolt]

Lock meatspin to his desktop background?

[Fraz]

Screenshot the desktop. Then hide all icons in a folder somewhere. Hide task bar and set screen shot as wallpaper. No amount of restarts will help! Classic :-p

Ahhhh yes - it is indeed a classic. I do love this one.

[Flash477]

Edit the hosts file and just set the IP of all his favourite sites to 127.0.0.1 - after continuous attempts to access the sites to no avail he might be forced to do some work...

[scaryjim]

Screen rotation, 180 degrees, was the fave back in the day (by which I mean more than 10 years ago, obviously ).

Personally I'd change his password, lock his computer, and make him get IT services (assuming you have central IT services of some kind) to reset it for him. Do this every time he doesn't lock his computer. He'll get a pretty heavy dose from ITS when he's contacting them several times a day to reset his password...

[0iD]

fire him

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That would be my thought. It's standard procedure; you break the acceptable use policy, you get asswhupped by your manager & disciplined.

[Smudger]

Send an e-mail to the ugliest woman in the office, telling her how much he loves her, etc...

[roachcoach]

Visit sites which will put him on a no-fly/watch list

Too much?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I got it!!

Put Win8 on his computer!!

[Disturbedguy]

Could do what was done to benneb one LAN..the dead clown / clown porn thing
Or make an internet explorer shortcut to "You Tube" on his desktop, when he presses it the system restarts / shut downs or locks..

[Platinum]

Could do what was done to benneb one LAN..the dead clown / clown porn thing
Or make an internet explorer shortcut to "You Tube" on his desktop, when he presses it the system restarts / shut downs or locks..

Genuinely thought he was gonna kill us when we did that

Come on Finn, you have been to enough lans to have more than enough ideas

[abaxas]

reboot!

[subucni]

Heres a couple i did in the past.

Just after Man United beat Chelsea in the champions league i change a few of his more obscure windows sounds and his anti virus update sound to the "Glory Glory Man United" song. I see your loaction says Newcastle so that could work quite nicely for you if he's a football fan.

I also did the set a friends favourite desktop icon to restart his pc too. You could take that a step further and set it so that it locks his workstation instead. Hopefully he has a facebook shortcut icon you can abuse for this.

Failing that, as others have said, if he's not getting the hint, maybe getting him disciplined is the only way.

[Kata]

It's a boring, sensible suggestion, but our work PCs automatically lock if left unattended for more than a few minutes. Can't you just turn this option on?

[Biscuit]

in addition to some of the ones posted above - swap the keys around on his keyboard

[Golden Dragoon]

I remember once, many years ago I got called up in front of the manager for leaving my computer unlocked for less than a min when I went to get a print out, my computer was in full view of the printer, but the rules were to never leave your smart card in the computer when you are not at it, and I got a right bollocking for doing it.
Now before you guys starts saying that is draconian, I was working for the dwp at the time and in a jobcentre so it kinda makes sense to never take any risks in that enviroment.