School computers

[vt3c]

Last year, a majority of school computers were Core 2 Duo E6400 dells with 4GB of RAM, or custom built AMD Athlon 64x2 machines using 2GB of RAM. The dells were using windows 7 professional 64-bit, and the athlons were using XP Pro.

They replaced every single one of these computers with Lenovo Thinkcenter desktops with Core i3's and the same measly 4GB of RAM. They could have kept the dell machines and replaced the athlon machines with the lenovos, but no, they had to throw the pretty much brand new (2009/2010) dells in a locked room and have brand new i3s out for everyone to use. 

 

The good news about it is, however, one of my friends is trying to start a club teaching computer hardware or at least allowing people to eff around with the stuff. Rumor has it that he's been in the room and he's seen them all.

And they are good.

[PowerPigeon]

We've got two computer labs in our school, one that's all Windows PCs (I think they're student built, don't know the specs,) and one that's primarily Macs. The Windows lab has a network drive full of torrented video games that people play at lunch. The same lab is full of spare parts just laying around, a friend of mine managed to put together a whole computer from them for the Oculus DK2 our school just got. We've also got a 3D printer and a camera drone.

[IMPERIUS]

shutdown -i,(in cmd) brings up a UI for remote shutdown of others computers(you could turn off everyones PC if its on the same server, wouldn't recommend doing that). Also leave a nice message for those victims before a restart/shutdown(whatever you want to do).

My god, our teacher did that to us sometimes and I wondered how he did it. Tho I think I (or others) wouldnt be able to do it since we werent admins

[werto165]

My god, our teacher did that to us sometimes and I wondered how he did it. Tho I think I (or others) wouldnt be able to do it since we werent admins

You don't have to be an admin AFAIK, I think you might be able to do it with a .bat file, dunno try it. 

[NeatSquidYT]

By shortcut do you mean pressing shift 5 times?

No

[RAGINRICKY]

taking a huge test and after and hour and a half half the computers decide to turn and make everybody restart. i find it so funny

[UnderwearThief]

IDK if anyone know this, but there is an easy way to get control of the SYSTEM account. Create a bootable USB with your favourite distro of Linux on it, then boot into it on the computer. Go into the C:\>windows>system 32 from Linux and rename delete sethc.exe which is sticky keys(on Windows 7 at least). Then, rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe. Restart the computer and when it boots up, before you log in, hit shift 5 times and cmd will open up. You now have root access! (Requires some work to get some things done, but a friend of mine was able to install programs that require the admin account).

 

EDIT: @faissaloo explained another way to do this, but both work

[SIGSEGV]

IDK if anyone know this, but there is an easy way to get control of the SYSTEM account. Create a bootable USB with your favourite distro of Linux on it, then boot into it on the computer. Go into the C:\>windows>system 32 from Linux and rename delete sethc.exe which is sticky keys(on Windows 7 at least). Then, rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe. Restart the computer and when it boots up, before you log in, hit shift 5 times and cmd will open up. You now have root access! (Requires some work to get some things done, but a friend of mine was able to install programs that require the admin account).

 

EDIT: @faissaloo explained another way to do this, but both work

The only issue is that in some schools they disable booting from USB and then lock the BIOS