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tha_dude:
in our school, the admin doesn't allow us to download files, and this is in our user account not possible. but word is using standart components -> enter the adress of the file u wan't in the edit field! it works!!

windows sucks!!

tha dude

Doctor V:
Wow, thats really cool that you found your hack.  Gotta take my hat off to you.  Since now you can download, there are a couple of free downloads that I suggest you try: format.exe and mandrake linux 8.1.

V

Calum:
he's not boasting about a hack, he's saying windows is crap because it allows this to happen! so cut him some slack, eh?  ;)

i used to have a similar thing at an internet cafe i frequented. They had set it up so you couldn't get into "My Computer" so you couldn't open, for example, the hard drive or the floppy drive. Since i wanted to download stuff to floppies, i had to find a quick solution. The easy workaround is to open up "My Documents" (which is on the startbar...  ;)  and just tye in A: (or C: or whatever i suppose) in the explorer address field.

They obviously set it up to keep people from getting to the system files, but i thought this was fairly obvious to figure out. They could maybe have removed My Documents from the start manu, or set explorer not to display address bars (actually that's bullshit because you could still use iexplore to do the same thing, isn't browser integration great? <sarcasm> ;)  but why should they have to remember all that fiddly crap?
Setting permissions would be the obvious sensible answer for an OS that has keeping its source code secret as its most powerful security feature...

dbl221:
Windows usually has a temp directory you can write to /systemroot/tmp or try to use another temp or tmp dir if you can this has nothing to do with the OS its just how the admin set up your schools systems.

tratan:
Once I was at a REI over here in North Carolina, and they had done that thing where you can't leave the browser.  The address bar had been removed, too, so I was apparently stuck on the REI web site.  Then, though, I started reading the links at the bottoms of the pages, and eventually I found a link to some server company which had a link on their home page to the Microsloth site.  I tried to do a search for yahoo in the search field, but apparently the search only covered the Microsloth web site.  Then I had the bright idea of going to the Microsoft gaming area, where I found a demo download of Microsloth's warcraft-rip.  I did some tests, and found that I could download it on top of any file I wanted to.

Summary: Except for NT (including 2000), Windows doesn't have even a good illusion of security even with third party software installed.

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