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Exactly the same experience for me, and similar with the game too. We figured out that while the C: drive wasn’t accessible in Explorer directly, you could cre
by rmccue 4y ago
Exactly the same experience for me, and similar with the game too.
We figured out that while the C: drive wasn’t accessible in Explorer directly, you could create a desktop shortcut directly to subfolders. Installed a copy of Worms World Party on all of our machines using that; somehow, although the machines were imaged weekly, it ended up on the image and got copied across to every school computer which was convenient.
I also went a step further with the joke messages, creating a program which showed a bunch of dialogs with choices in a loop. It couldn’t be closed and some choices did things like open/close the CD tray (as a “diagnostic”). People started just dragging it to the corner of the screen out of sight.
We also had a self sign-up system for sports, where you could pick a main interschool sport, or a “development” sport that was more about learning interesting stuff. The system was pretty insecure, using your date of birth as a “password”, but it also turned out that it had an SQL injection, so I used that to set everyone’s sport to Equestrian. Getting to hear an announcement at the school assembly about how the computer system had a problem was pretty great. I even emailed them about the injection issue but they never fixed it. (A risky move, really.)