Re: how to bring my vfp screen to the front by Ook
Ook
Mon Jan 10 12:15:52 CST 2005
There are definitely degrees of anal-retentiveness. I understand the need to
keep your environment locked down, especially if you have 1000+ PCs on
critical networks doing mission critical work. Maintaining them is a
nightmare, patching them is hell, and the last thing we need is some prima
donna developer screwing up their windows. Tech support has enough to do
without wasting time running around fixing the messes people make of their
windows. The simple answer is to lock down the desktops.
OTOH, I've worked in environments where you were not even allowed to change
your desktop background color or image. Management brags about how much they
save in maintenance costs without realizing how much lost productivity is
occurring.
"Paul Pedersen" <no-reply@swen.com> wrote in message
news:eqexQNz9EHA.2572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> On the other hand, I've been in places where management was so overly
> obsessed with silly stuff that I have not been able to work. There've been
> times when I've had to sit for hours just waiting for permission to do
> something or other.
>
> I've also been prevented from using new versions of FoxPro even for new
> applications.
>
> And one company stayed with Windows 3.1 and 95 until a month before
Windows
> 2000 was released, then upgraded to NT.
>
>
>
> "Ook" <usenet@nospam.emberts.com> wrote in message
> news:%230ouLIz9EHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Dennis P. Harris" <wright.jnumgr@alaska.nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:3veut09hot124u4oignegutvjae25f74v6@4ax.com...
> >> "Ook" <usenet@nospam.emberts.com> wrote in message
> >> news:%23QWAibN9EHA.2112@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> > Out here in the real world we have installations where the business
> > rules
> >> > require strict control of the workstation. Workstations in corporate
> >> > environments are not play toys for the users to do with as they wish,
> > they
> >> > operate under strict rules. I'm working on an app that is deployed to
> > over
> >> > 1000 workstations, and the users are not allowed to do anything at
all
> > on
> >> > those workstations but run my app.
> >> >
> >> sounds like the kind of anal-retentive place where i'd never want
> >> to work!
> >>
> >
> > You will find very few businesses that are not "anal-retentive," as you
> > call
> > them. Those that are not tend to be Mom and Pop shops, inexperienced in
IT
> > environments, and usually have a lot of problems with viruses, spyware,
> > and
> > Windows issues because management is too stupid to set rules governing
the
> > usage of company computers.
> >
> >
>
>
