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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 267359" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We had the opposite problem. </p><p></p><p>When difficult child 3 was very little, about 2 years old, he was amazingly adept on the computer. He also loved it. SO to protect my text files, we had a screensaver with a very short interval before activation, plus every time I left the computer even for a second, I would put it into sleep mode. To get out of screensaver/sleep mode required a password. </p><p></p><p>We did this because even if I saved a file, difficult child 3 would sometimes get onto the computer, make changes, close the file and automatically hit the return key for the default "save changes" so that next time I opened up my file, I might find a fewq lines of gobbledegook.</p><p></p><p>We found the screensaver password option worked to prevent this - until difficult child 3 learned that if he crashed the computer then restarted, he could quit the screensaver on restart, and then he could access all the stuff he loved.</p><p></p><p>Little monster - he had very poor receptive langage at the time (and even worse expressive language) but we were able to make him understand - do that again, and no computer for a week.</p><p></p><p>He simply hadn't realised that the screensaver was there for a very good reason, to prevent him getting in without our permission. He had (in his egocentric way) simply thought that he was 'fixing' a problem.</p><p></p><p>But I'm sure that if I set the computer to shut down at a certain time each night, difficult child 3 would not cope with it too well. He still needs time and warnings to transition off the computer. Besides, he would re-program it himself, then re-set it when he finally shut it down. He's now matching husband for the title of best computer tech in the house.</p><p></p><p>However, it's a good thought. husband will want to instal this, not for difficult child 3, but for me - to make me stop talking to you lot late at night and come to bed!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 267359, member: 1991"] We had the opposite problem. When difficult child 3 was very little, about 2 years old, he was amazingly adept on the computer. He also loved it. SO to protect my text files, we had a screensaver with a very short interval before activation, plus every time I left the computer even for a second, I would put it into sleep mode. To get out of screensaver/sleep mode required a password. We did this because even if I saved a file, difficult child 3 would sometimes get onto the computer, make changes, close the file and automatically hit the return key for the default "save changes" so that next time I opened up my file, I might find a fewq lines of gobbledegook. We found the screensaver password option worked to prevent this - until difficult child 3 learned that if he crashed the computer then restarted, he could quit the screensaver on restart, and then he could access all the stuff he loved. Little monster - he had very poor receptive langage at the time (and even worse expressive language) but we were able to make him understand - do that again, and no computer for a week. He simply hadn't realised that the screensaver was there for a very good reason, to prevent him getting in without our permission. He had (in his egocentric way) simply thought that he was 'fixing' a problem. But I'm sure that if I set the computer to shut down at a certain time each night, difficult child 3 would not cope with it too well. He still needs time and warnings to transition off the computer. Besides, he would re-program it himself, then re-set it when he finally shut it down. He's now matching husband for the title of best computer tech in the house. However, it's a good thought. husband will want to instal this, not for difficult child 3, but for me - to make me stop talking to you lot late at night and come to bed! Marg [/QUOTE]
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