This company has rolled out thin clients for its users, and mostly that’s worked fine — but for one power user it’s a problem, says an IT pilot fish there.

“With new implementations of software, she was complaining of the slowness of the thin client,” fish says. “So I went out and purchased a decent PC for her to relieve the client-side processing. All was great — she was extremely happy that performance increased.

“Next day she came to me, flustered and surrounded by three co-workers. ‘The computer doesn’t work! She can’t log on!’ they snapped.

“I walked over to where they were all confused by the prompt to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The thin client had been set to auto-login for her.

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