Hello,
Recently my work computer underwent a new Image Boot Load. The copy of XP is bare essentials!
RIGHT Button Mouse click and window shortcut keys are disabled.
Internet Options disabled
Control Panel and My computer disabled
etc..
Only thing you can really do is access the pre installed programs and the Network Drive and navigate and view the network map set up.
Also, I can log into router as a guest...
The internet works for just about every website...and I know if that's the case there must be a way to ACCESS my USB thumb drive?!?!?
Where there is a WILL there is a WAY!
Please, help post topics with any suggestions or ideas...
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Typically this is done for a reason. Trying to circumvent your IT policies is liable to get you fired or reprimanded in other ways. We, here at PortableApps.com, are unable to help you with that.
Is usually either laziness or expense. I can't say much further than that because a)I don't go to work, and b)I can't seem to find what I'm looking for on Google.
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Welcome back!
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
What I'm looking for is a solution...
At work & on the computer in general. People look for efficiency and quality. I am seeking a solution with out causing a big problem @ my work. Something that will enable me to use the Shortcuts WINDOWS integrated into the Operating System.
A USB thumbdrive is a perfect way to have a pre-installed third party app to help assist you with shortcuts...
What I do not need is your negativity and mom-like power tripping status ego. Also, "Trying to circumvent your IT policies is liable to get you fired or..." is something that I should worry about.Why poke your nose in something that doesn't concern you?
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciaited. Please keep me updated.
There are hundreds of other forums who love hacking into things they shouldn't be in. Here, we stay legit. Gizmokid is a couple of things I don't think you'd care to understand. So, in short,
Isn't fair, isn't needed, and really isn't welcome.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
If your company has issued specific guidelines on what you can and cannot do, then you should follow those guidelines.
However, if they did not tell you anything and only added OS restrictions, then as long as you don't try to remove the actual restrictions, there are a few things you can try.
You say you have access to the internet. Well, IE is intertwined with Windows explorer in many ways.
If you can type into the address bar, and you know the drive letter, try just typing it in and hitting enter.
Unless they have the Hide Drives key set, you should see the contents of your drive.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
How am I able to identify my USB drive if I can ONLY SEE the network drive and it's subcontents?
Great point noteing that IE and Windows are intertwined btw...
He's put in a lot of hours as a developer here, especially w/Songbird, my newest favorite app.
He's helped me on more than one occasion, and his skills and contributions are welcome here.
I understand you are a noob, but there's no reason to be like that.
As for the answer to your question, well...
Here's a hint: 23
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
No disrespect meant.
Hint:23? My age is 32, perhaps it's a good luck sign?
However...
He had taken time out of his busy schedule to not only post a negative off topic reply, but didn't even go the distance to answer the question...
All I did was present my cards on the tabel, in hopes of hearing an idea or solution, he provided neither.
I'm glad for him to have help develope a great app!
Credit is placed where credit is deserved
...as for you, well. You at least attempted to give an answer, it's the thought that COUNTS.
Actually, it's policy to first point out that what you are trying to do could get your computer use suspended or you suspended/expelled (if at university) or get you reprimanded/fire (if in a workplace). Believe it or not, many people asking for what you did haven't considered that fact.
As for your question, it would be difficult if your PC is locked down to the point of not being able to access local drives to use portable software. They may have USB locked down completely (which is entirely doable in Windows and nearly impossible to get around when done properly). Your best bet is to ask IT first if it is permitted. The only places you'd be able to do it would be in Explorer itself if you can get to it, or in a File - Open window in IE or another app and right-clicking on an EXE and running it. But, please be sure it is permissible before doing it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
In the wild west of the internet, it is often a struggle to maintain a site that adheres to a high set of standards.
PortableApps.com has a well-deserved reputation for adhering to licensing laws, and trying to respect any other laws or regulations, while offering the highest quality apps.
You will see that here, the members of the team try very hard to do the right thing, not just to maintain the rep, but also to avoid any legal entanglements that could negatively impact the project.
That's why you will see, when people ask for help portablizing proprietary apps, or bypassing security, that the team members will not provide support.
Here's another hint:
You would think it was 26.
But in reality, the maximum is 23, and it's likely to be #5, #6, or #7.
I could give you the answer directly, but you need the secret code words.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
The thing to do is play with your computer until you find one. I learned a lot doing that.
Look for help in IE, check web help. Try doing things in there.
Try printing things, and then checking various help and settings that way.
Go through the alphabet if you don't know the letter.
Download portable apps and use those to browse your drives and open things.
Set Windows Explorer to show control panel.
Can you use run from the start menu? Do you know what commands you need?
Download a command prompt from this web site.
Can you telnet into your computer? Remote access it?
Use a utility to get the Administrator password?
Is there a compression program that will allow you to browse folders?
Change Exporer to have an address bar?
Can you set search to search all drives on your computer for a specific file on your flash drive?
Can you boot into your own OS?
These ideas are just clumsy thoughts. You can try a thousand things.
Since you obviously don't care, I don't think it would be illegal or even, at this point, immoral to tell you how to do what amounts to a basic function.
Is "Run" on your Start menu? You said the Windows command key was disabled. Run can more easily be removed from the Start menu than disabling the Windows key, but look anyway. Alternately, do CTRL+ALT+Delete, choose Task Manager, go to File > New Task (Run) and that's the same thing.
If you can get to the Run dialog box, you're good to go - to the next step, at least.
Then try to manually access the drive letter. You can also do this in Internet Explorer by typing in drive letters in the address bar.
A and B are reserved for floppies, even if the system hasn't got one. This one don't. One I built hasn't got one either. C is Windows. That's what 23 means. (Plus it's a LOST number.) D is likely your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM or writer, so start with E and work your way down the alphabet.
If you can't get to the flash drive, or once you get there you can't run programs, there isn't much you can do with PortableApps.com stuff.
If you can boot to a custom disc-based Linux distro, you can play around offline, but you almost certainly can't get on the Net, unless your IT people are really inept.
Best to get an AT&T or Verizon-enabled netbook at that point. Unless you live/work in the country/rural areas, in which point you're S.O.L.... US Cellular is one that provides service "everywhere", including outside the city limits, but I don't think netbooks come configured with access to their network. (Oddly enough you can't even sign up for their service but a few places, yet I visit CA, and in the mountains, my mom has No Service with Verizon, and I have four bars with US Cellular, so... yeah, they pwn *.*.)
You gave away my riddle!
But, seriously, if you gotta explain something that obvious...
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
Sorry dude, he was getting kinda testy.
Not everybody's as savvy with computers as I am. And I'm pretty good, at least compared with everybody I know in real life. And some of you guys make me look like a noob.
Anyway, I'm mainly here to help, and after 10 posts running in a circle it was time to break the cycle.
Was kind of obvious... but maybe not really. Like I said, and this dawned on me as I posted... it's far easier to hide the Run command than it is to disable the Windows command key. If one's done, likely the other is too. So I suggested the three-finger salute. I didn't even realize there was a Run command tucked away there until a couple years ago (at some point when it mattered). So maybe it's his ticket. And that ain't so obvious.
The only thing I meant was obvious was to go through the alphabet.
BTW I've done some lockdowns at my work. If you use the registry to hide Run, it's not in the Task Manager either.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
Wow, I was not aware of that.
Barring that, then, it seems my only suggestion of real value was booting to a live Linux CD - or, if they went to all that trouble, just getting a netbook.