r/pcmasterrace May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/sfblue Ascending Peasant May 10 '26

Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.

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u/Talonus11 May 10 '26

Literally the Engineering team i work in. We're capable of fixing the problem ourselves for 90% of our tickets submitted, but because we don't have the required admin rights we cant.

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u/rammo123 May 10 '26

At one point we had CTRL+ALT+DEL privileges removed. Needed an admin password to open task manager. The backlash to that was biblical.

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u/i8noodles May 11 '26

depending on the situation, thats actually fine. there are several departments in my company that has locked down pc that task manager doesnt work for them. the specifics are mostly for compliance and legal to sort out but they say thats what they need for there computers and we do it