A quick press and the system is secured from any would be mischief-doers, and a smart Technical Support Engineer remembers this when he gets up from his desk in VMware GSS.
The HR folks would probably be unhappy at such an unauthorized use, but a quick flip of the screen with Ctrl-Alt-Up and a dash back to your desk, leaving their display inverted and the surrounding engineers glancing over for the inevitable reaction, was worth the risk.Īll the “fun” of fixing your machine when you got back to your desk could have been prevented by hitting those three little keys we all know: Ctrl-Alt-Del. When I was still working as an Escalation Engineer for VMware® Global Support, there was a time-honored tradition among the Broomfield center’s EUC support group: If you left your computer unlocked and walked out of eyesight, you’d always come back to a surprise.
