PCs may only be used over employees' lunch hours for personal business, i.e., accessing the Internet, e-mails to friends, games, etc. People walking through offices come away with the wrong impression. This has also been a source of morale problems. Only Departmental IT may make configurational changes. Downloading of screensavers and trial software is only allowed on a case by case basis with Departmental IT's assistance.
Additional information is provided below.
The major issue regarding the download of screensavers is that they are usually packaged in a zipped format, i.e., compressed. After the staff member unzips the file, it normally sets up an executable program to begin the installation. We have already had several problems. For every file that is unzipped the zipped version is still retained resulting in additional file space being taken. The downloading of zip files is further complicated by the potential introduction of viruses.