Not traditional question!

Guys,i need a little help here!

My nephew has exams in 2 weeks,but instead of preparing he is playing games on his PC!So his mother asked me"how can we make his computer not to play games?but he must not know what happened!" i said i ll check,so can anyone suggest something?





@ mods : i don`t know if it is allowed to post threads like this...

 

Two back hands.

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And take away the computer. Don't give it back until he gets a good grade.

 

lol take out the dedicated GPU (switch to the motherboard's IGP) and a RAM stick of two

 

Umm.....try talking to him ?

Making his laptop unable to play games means he'll just find something else to do---like trying to fix it, basketball, internet surfing, whatever.

He has to want to study.

 

lol,he is not that idiot,hi ll notice that!wow...i thought this-i ll change video memory in bios from 256 to...mmmm...like 16 mb ,will that work???

 

Very good point.

 

he was "normal" and very responsible... until he started playing PoP 3...now he is like mad....and i want it to look like an accident...he isnt good in that things.

 

Doesn't matter. If, while at home, I had to type up a report for work, and my home computer stopped working (even just for 3D games) I'd probably spend the whole day trying to fix it---NOT typing up my report.

If my boss told me that the report was due tomorrow or I'm history, THEN I'd make it a priority.

If your nephew needs to study more, then he needs to understand exactly why.

No offense, but when I was in school, I knew when I had to study and when I'd ace the test with no studying. Maybe your nephew doesn't need to, but his mom just thinks so. Who knows.

Also, is it the gaming that's a problem, or is it something else, and the gaming is his way of dealing with it?

 

let him finish the game... after that what?

 

i totally agree with you m8,but this game maid him a zombi!i know what to do,when i find a way to disable gaming,he ll try to fix it,then hi ll call his father,his father will give comp. to me,i ll take it to my fathers office and after an hour i ll tell my bro that it needs a repair and will give it back in 2 weeks.what do you think?

 

I knew a girl whose mother did this to her when she played to much Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft. This wasn't because of school work, but because the mother was just bothered by the fact that she played games so often.

She ALWAYS found a way to circumvent road blocks.

Hell, you haven't seen ingenuity until you've seen a girl own in WC3 on a computer with no keyboard, graphics card, or hard drive for that matter.

Kids will always find a way, what the mom needs to do is talk to the kid. Other than that, if the kid is a punk, just take the keyboard and mouse away. It shouldn't look like an accident, the kid needs to know that school comes first. What are his parents afraid of, offending their child for telling him to get off the fricken computer? Are they afraid of him?


*shame*
I am SUCH a hypocrite.

 

he is playing 3 time...

 

If he's not an idiot, he probably knows enough to re-enable anything you disable, or at least to google it to figure out what's wrong.

Also, if it were you, would you simply drop it or now spend extra time trying to figure out why it doesn't work?

I agree with the 'talk to him' line.

 

yeah,that was my opinion 2,buy he is a "hard kid" and his mother don`t want any conflicts...

he ll notice that something(ram,hdd,etc) is missing,but he isnt good at soft/os part ...

 

What kind of exam is that? 2 week is pretty far away, and if that kid has daily habits of studying, he would do fine without much "special" preparations. So, at that point, I would try to make him study as his habit, instead of trying to make him study for the particular exam.

Parents shouldn't let kids play MMO in the first place, IMO.

 

So, the problem isn't the kid per say, rather he's got parents that for whatever reason, don't want to act like parents?

And somehow messing with his laptop will change this?

Talk to him, talk to his parents. If nothing works, let the kid fail and learn from his own damn mistakes.

 

There are plenty of things you can do that will frustrate him, but its hard to restrict gaming in particular.

1)Install old and faulty drivers
2) Create a key-combination that is commonly used for something and change it to "close current program" such as w+w+w+w (Commonly the W-key is foward for FPS, and it wont trigger if he's typing a www.com web adress)
3) If it's an online game, and he has internet access, remove internet access.

alternatively

Delete part of the game registry, and then "misplace" his instillation CD

 

What is PoP 3?

 

my father told me to do that ... i ve no choice...and its a very important "entering university exam",and if he fails-he ll go to army,and here going to army=going to hell!

 

Prince of Persia 3.

 

i liked this part,how can i do this?

 

I believe you have to go into the System folder of the game, and then the User.ini or something similiar (I've never owned/seen this game before). Once your in the User.ini, you should see some keybindings (different keys for different actions) Once you find this, then you find a key that is used often (jump, or foward, or soemthing like that) it should say something like w=movefoward. Then you find the key that says something like esc=close

Then you could just swap the two, or leave it empty.

Or, if you really wanna screw it up, just delete all the keybindings

Edit:
I know this wasn't the same thing i was trying to do (W+W+W+W)...because i realized, in order to create a "windows" keybind, it would take some java-script editing, or you'd have to d-load a program for it

 

i like it,but its too complicated !i think to change video memory from bios to ~8 or 16mb,will it work?

 

And then, after the problem starts, the kid goes to game control settings, picks "default" and fixes the problem in 2 seconds.......That'll really make him want to study more

 

Yea, but it'll be a pain in the but. Alternativly, just delete everything in the system ini. Then the game won't work untill he reinstalls it.

I'm just trying to help without being malicious.


I wish i knew more about keybinding in windows. If you research it a bit, you might be able to find a program that will work like i wanted before. It won't be a part of the game, so he can't just "Default" everything.

 

Xirurg what country are you in?

If you want an explanation of how to screw the program I'll walk you through it i swear it wont be hard.

 

Well, the game lists 32MB of V-RAM as a minimum requirement, so it might make the game not run/crash.

But if you think doing that will somehow make him say "Wow, the game doesn't load, I think I'll study hard for 2 weeks" ---you're VERY mistaken.

 

russia.yes please,but i ll read it tomorrow,want to sleep!

"Wow, the game doesn't load,my laptop is broken" his parents will send it for "repair" for 2 weeks!

 

If you find out that every night after you fall asleep, your wife drives over to another man's house to cheat on you, would disabling her car solve your marriage problems?

For whatever reason, studying isn't as high a priority to your nephew as others feel it should be. Messing with his laptop won't change that.

If he was spending his time playing basketball, would hiding his shoes make him want to study?

You are treating the symptoms of the problem, not the problem itself.

 

Wait so he's taking a college entrance exam, he knows he'll go to the army if he fails, and he isn't studying?

Either:

A) He's like myself and others who can pass most exams without study (I do when I have to)

B) He's underestimating the test and needs a good kick in the pants.

C) It's too late, he has not learned from past mistakes, hope the Army improves him.

Taking away gaming, by tricking him, will not change the situation. He will simply spend all his time he would have spent gaming trying to diagnose the problem. Sit him down and talk to him, make sure he understands whats happening/could happen. Now not being a parent I can't say it will do the trick, but when my parents tried to take away gaming to force me to study it sure as heck didn't make me want to study.

 

Um, there are a couple of options.
Either 1: the parents take responsibility for their kid, which means they take the damn conflict and either make a deal with the kid, or if necessary, lock up his computer.
or 2: they stay the hell out of his life. If they're not willing to tell the kid what to do, why should he do as they want? Let him play PoP if his parents are so f'ing afraid to deal with it.

If they lock up his computer, and tell him he'll have it back when he's passed the exam (or perhaps he'll have it back for a couple of hours each day when he's done studying), then he'll have a motivation for studying.
If they make it "mysteriously" break, that just makes him want to 1) fix it, or 2) do something else entirely. Because he isn't aware of the connection between his mysteriously broken computer and the exam he's supposed to prepare for.

So ffs, grow up and talk to the poor kid rather than going behind his back

 

I took the implication of the earlier "bu[t] he is a "hard kid" and his mother don`t want any conflicts... " as being that the kid is capable and willing to assault his mother if she took away his computer.

If the kid really is like that, screw him, I hope he gets sucked right into the military.

 

Ummm

2 weeks is still long.

Maybe he has a different style of studying.

But Yes, The easiest way to solve the problem is by TALKING to him.

 

I really don't see why the parents are going to another person to ask what they should do. The kid is THEIR responsibility, and to pile it on another person is actually straight up rude. If the kid assaults his mom, well, who the %#@$ does that? Seriously, though. The either needs a swift kick in the pants or the parents need to be more stern.

 

Beat His Ass!!!

 

I like the way you talk.

 

fo sho. and take his computer away. yadada?

 

Seriously the parents of this kid have some retarded passive-aggressive mentality going on. But its hardly OUR collective duty to judge people. So here's what you do...
Open the PoP3 executable with notepad... go a couple pages in as inset a few dozen 0's... then do that again about a half dozen times. Then Save. You'll have corrupted his game... Now just misplace his instal disk...

But know that this will hardly solve the problem. Let the kid be is my suggestion over beat his ass, but screwing with his computer is a terrible plan. If it was me that this was tried to, i'd spend the 48 hours after trying to figure WHAT caused it and HOW to fix it... I sure as hell wouldnt be studying

 

Hey ,thx all for your opinions,but its russia here,people here think in other way.his parents havnt ask anyone what to do,they asked how to disable gaming on his notebook.so i guess no one can help me here...

 

Xirurg i typed up exactly what you need to do to disable POP3, read my previous post.

 

I would agree. Do what Hawkshark suggests

 

ok,thx i guess that will work,but i ll talk to him again.and if that doesnt work i ll show him this thread!!!!

 

hey i dont study lady and i get straight a's

 

And that's supposed to help the OP.... how !?

 

I've seen on tv Russian police getting "aggressive" with criminals, I see no problem in parents doing the same(though not as rough) to their children?

 

First of congrats on the good taste that the kid has. PoP are some of the best games out there.

A possible solution is to uninstall the game and then install Deep Freeze to stop him from installing it again.

 

Uhh put a password on the computer? lol

 

Hm.
How are you related to this kid?
I don't need great details I'm just wondering are you immediate family, friend, nanny or whatever.
Why not put a password on the computer's BIOS, something really insane. Just a bunch of random letters. Or perhaps one character for everyday he studies. Tell him if he studies (maybe 1 hour = 1 character/letter) he can earn back the computer. (I would say the last letter is off limits until he passes).

Or bring him something to drink and leave it where he'll spill it. This would be a lot easier if he played in the dark. Ugh, I killed the keyboard on my old computer, had to have the keyboard replaced (was out about a month but we had a really poor repair service). I nearly killed this one too but I cleaned it up on time. Pop would be the best - sugary, corrosive, acid, fizzy, sticky and just plain nasty when between someones keys!

Neither of these are ways to ultimately solve the problem. Frankly, if I were a parent and it got to the point where it was army or university I'd take the laptop and not give it back until he got good enough marks/studied. Then I'd work on a rewards system. I'm sure they have monitoring programs that will automatically shut down the computer after a certain amount of time. But I completely understand that you are not in the position to make the bigger desicions just the one who's made to carry them out. I hope things improve.

 

is your nephew in university? I am in U of T studying engineering, its like the hardest program in Canada. But i play a lot of games, its a good way to quickly reduce stress. if he is in high school, they dont worry, studying isnt that useful anyways