[Guide] Hide Glider from Parents

[Oppochaos]

This guide would be helpful for storing your computer while you glide, so that you can save power (the screen will be turned off), or if you are a kid and glide but dont want your parents to find your computer.

This guide is all about me sharing my techniques for hiding my computer from my parents while i botted, because they didnt want me to.

This guide is intended for vista and may (untested) work for XP. This works best with laptops which are quiet and dont overheat.

The first part is to make it so that you can close your computer without making it go into sleep mode. To do this:

1. Right click your desktop and click "Personalize"
2. Click "Screen Saver"
3. Click the link on the bottom left that says "Change power settings..."
4. On the right panel, click "Choose what closing the lid does"
5. Where it says "When i close the lid:" toggel the drop down list to "do
nothing"

You can now close your computer without it turning off. The next part is to hide the Glider icon from the system tray.

1. Right click the taskbar
2. Click properties
3. Change to the "Notification Area" tab
4. Click customize
5. Find Glider in the list and in the "Behavior" column, change it from "Hide when inactive" to "Hide".

Note: You will have to do this each time you close and reopen Glider. You can show the icon by pressing the arrow pointing to the left on the taskbar.

After this you can lock your computer, but be sure you have a secure password.

1. Click start (Vista Icon)
2. Click the arrow pointing to the right, in the bottom right of the menu


After all of this is done you can put your computer away and it will look unsuspicous to your parents, and if it is found they cant unlock it and there is always the third defense which hides the icon from showing up in the system tray. The worst they can do is shut your computer down. Just trying to contribute, hope you enjoyed!

~Oppochaos

[Zimzago]

Nice guide, already knew this though. Works on XP too, btw.

[Oppochaos]

Congrants on ur first post, and thanx for the comment.. 93 views and 1 comment.

[Dr. Doom]

I don't need it as I don't bot, but this guide could be helpful to some kids who are in the same situation and you and don't know what their parents would do if they knew u were botting. Thanks for the contribution.

Alucard805

[Thidan]

1 little question ^_^

What if your parent/legal guardian opens it up and shuts it down by holding the on/off button? :P

[Hwang Mi Hee]

I wouldn't have to hide it :P but cool stuff anyways.

[Couwae]

No offense BUT, who's parents give a crap?
Especially if you dont live in the us.
Dont you pay it for yourself? Or do you use your moms credit card?

Hahahahahahah

[l1nk3]

My parents don't care. Also, i have my OWN computer. And my mom did buy my glider so hush

[blackfang500]

Some people's parents do care, I'm sure.

[an7r1x]

LOL I already know this but btw good "tutorial"

[Nemorosa]

1 little question ^_^

What if your parent/legal guardian opens it up and shuts it down by holding the on/off button? :P

That's got nothing to do with the guide, it's kinda hard to prevent that don't you think?

[karmand]

hide glider from parents? LOL like my parents would give a shit if i bot or not xD

[nikomo]

Why would anyone's parent give a crap?

[Ferag]

Why would anyone's parent give a crap?

Well if you had good parents who gave a crap about your upbringing, they would want to make sure you follow the rules so you don't go rob places or scam people when you're older. Apart from that, they might want you to go outside or meet people, or when you're older not spend all your money on cheating at a video game.

Mabye they just want you to be a fair sport or whatever... There are tons of reasons why parents should and would give a crap.

[nikomo]

If someone connects Gliding and robbery in their head, there's something wrong with you.
Glider allows you to play while being outside and it's what, 15USD one-time payment for Glider Elite?

People being a "fair sport" will always get kicked in the ass.
Expect in professional sports such as football, tennis and american football.
There you'll get kicked for cheating because they actually test you there.

You can't compare gliding to cheating anyways.
Or is there a ppanther script that gets you to 2.3k rating in 2v2 and raids Icecrown for you?