Other people uninstalling my games on a shared PC!

[Snickers]

I use a shared computer for gaming and the Dota 2 players here (notoriously fat degenerate losers) love to uninstall everything except Dota 2. This is an issue because it takes like an hour to reinstall my game, and kills my limited gaming opportunities. I understand that Dota players are offended by the idea of having to share a room with someone of a normal BMI, but this is a shared computer lab where I play what I want.

Is there a way to make my games not show up on other people's steam accounts so they can't uninstall them? Or "protect" them somehow? Maybe a way to repel Dota players, like borrowing the sign from the pool that says: "soap showers required " and hang it up in the lab? TLet me know, thanks.

[Ettanin]

Maybe keep a backup on an external drive and restore it from there, using Steam's Backup and Restore function.

[Snickers]

Its a computer lab on campus

Originally posted by nullable:

Yeah, having archived copies seems like your best bet. Having your own PC would be the ideal solution. I don't know all the circumstances of whose PC, or why it's shared.

Computer lab on college campus, and yeah having my own PC would obviously be ideal but not an option currently.

[Ettanin]

Don't get caught misusing university property. It may mean permanent loss of access to university systems or worse, being expelled.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Snickers:

Its a computer lab on campus

Originally posted by nullable:

Yeah, having archived copies seems like your best bet. Having your own PC would be the ideal solution. I don't know all the circumstances of whose PC, or why it's shared.

Computer lab on college campus, and yeah having my own PC would obviously be ideal but not an option currently.

Get an external SSD and install Steam and your games on it. Then plug it in and play then remove when your done. Keep the drive with you and they can't uninstall anything because you have it

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Originally posted by Snickers:

Its a computer lab on campus



Computer lab on college campus, and yeah having my own PC would obviously be ideal but not an option currently.

Get an external SSD and install Steam and your games on it. Then plug it in and play then remove when your done. Keep the drive with you and they can't uninstall anything because you have it

This. Whenever i played in univestiy between classes..i used a external hard drive to install my stuff on, plug it into the pc i used, and played directly from it. Do not never install stuff on pc's as they have this program that freezes things on pc called HIBERNATION or something that when the pc is shut down at end of day, it resets everything on the pc to a designated save state before anything was done to it. Basically the University's networking used a save state that if anything was installed it one day, by the next day, it was auto deleted by the startup of the pc. So your deletion might not be fat losers, but the pc's themselves.

Most of the time the only permanent programs were installed by people who work in networking at the university or in advanced computer networking classes there.

NOTE: They used something like this:

https://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze

[Snickers]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Don't get caught misusing university property. It may mean permanent loss of access to university systems or worse, being expelled.

lol make me ♥♥♥♥♥♥

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Originally posted by Supafly:

Get an external SSD and install Steam and your games on it. Then plug it in and play then remove when your done. Keep the drive with you and they can't uninstall anything because you have it

So your deletion might not be fat losers, but the pc's themselves.

Most of the time the only permanent programs were installed by people who work in networking at the university or in advanced computer networking classes there.

https://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze

Yeah this seems like the only option. Also I've considered that they reset every day, but I tested this and they do not. Someone is manually deleting my games unfortunately.