<p>At my school, indvidual users are not allowed to install their own programs onto the school’s public computers. From what I’ve seen most patrons use the school’s computer’s for academic work (writing papers, taking exams, researching articles, etc.). My school has a rule stating that on campus workstations are for academic work only. If there is a long line for the workstations (which there usually is), and a person is caught using the computer for non-academic purposes, then that person can be asked to give up their seat to someone who needs it. But if the lab is sparsely populated then you can do whatever you want because the lab consultant wouldn’t care.</p>
<p>We are not allowed to install programs onto the school’s computers. I’ve even tried doing it on a flash drive, and it didn’t work. However, we are allowed to use the computers for non-academic purposes. </p>
<p>This was a problem when, for instance, I needed to install a driver for my printer onto a school laptop, as mine was broken. I ended up using someone else’s laptop.</p>
<p>It depends on how your schools computers are set up. If all the computers run on a server(such as windows 2003 or linux), then it probably wont work because of administrative priviledges.</p>