Admin restrictions ? Defcon and a USB-stick !

[Stephen Falken]

At our office it is not possible to install programs without admin permission. So today I tried this:

Copied the Defcon folder from the installation on my home computer on a memory stick. Then I plugged the stick into the office computer and tried to run the Defcon.exe from that stick. It works !! Connected to servers without a problem. It wasn't even necessary to copy the files on the office computer.

Worth a try if you can't install it because of admin restrictions.

[Montyphy]

The same can be said for Uplink and Darwinia.

[Dyer]

I would love to be able to play at school. I have all the files there, but the school computers restrict us from launching .exe files.

[N0ught]

Oh yeah memory sticks are great - they're like removable hard-drives, and you can treat them as such.

[gumbo]

Dyer try creating a file in notepad with the first line reading:

Defcon.exe

save it has defcon.bat and try running that. Should work if I know school budgets and always going for some crappy little software thats full of holes the size of Austrilia.

[Dyer]

I'll try that tommorow morning. Thanks.

[MagikalGoatPants]

I would love to be able to play at school. I have all the files there, but the school computers restrict us from launching .exe files.

Or just rename the exe "notepad.exe". Most (my) school's restrictions go by the name of the program rather than the programs themselves.

[MattD]

At my school, all we had to do was rename the .exes after programs which the security automatically authorized to use. For example, Turok for Windows was allowed to be executed when renamed to 'Photoshop.exe' in my computer graphics class.

[yokken]

Did that to bring it to my friend's house... he has a kickass computer and it almost froze for 10 minutes when I pressed P to take a screenshot. x_x

[Freyar]

And we're afraid of computer security in the near future.

[Soaps]

let productivity plummet

[Dyer]

Thanks for the help, but i'm afraid none of them worked.

[Stephen Falken]

I would love to be able to play at school. I have all the files there, but the school computers restrict us from launching .exe files.

Are .COM files blocked too ? If not, rename Defcon.exe to Defcon.com !

[Montyphy]

Hm, its been I while since I needed to bypass admin restrictions. Are you able to place shortcuts in the startup folder?

[Dyer]

No i am not. We can only access "My Documents" and files shared on the network. .com files are blocked too.