Access the internet through calculator, notepad, etc
Access the internet through calculator, notepad, etc
Futility | 30414 Reads | This is my first go at an article, so if you're going to criticize, please make it constructive. I already know it's short, but it's not exactly a complicated process.
When I'm in my programming class (Java) at school, the teacher always blocks Internet Explorer because a few idiots decided to check their email right in front of her, which is bad at my school. Until this incident, I had always used the internet to move past my teacher's requests. I would finish the assignment early and spend the rest of the time researching more advanced techniques. (I know, I'm a nerd, but hey- Java is useful)
So, when I got home, I decided to try and fix this problem. I searched around the internet using the best tool known to man (google.com) and came across this strategy.
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When you open the windows calculator, calc.exe, you can go to help and then click help topics.
Note: This can be done through any of the basic Windows applications, such as notepad. -
Right click on the title bar and go to 'Jump to URL'
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Type your URL (Make sure you put in http://)
There you have it. Now you can search around the internet using your own private little browser which is easily hidden if and when a teacher walks by.
I tested this at school and it worked like a charm!
Thanks for reading
ghost 16 years ago
I'll rate as soon as I try this
Can you not r.click by holding down left-click and pressing the menu button (usually between Winkey and Ctrl or Alt and Ctrl)? Might have just disabled it specifically from the mouse?
Mouzi 16 years ago
You can get the help topics page just by pressing F1 on desktop? It's the same as with applications such as calc and notepad, right?
ghost 16 years ago
I'm rating it very good, I have a similar problem at my school, and this completely solves it. Good find!
ghost 16 years ago
I tried it on Vista and it didn't work. I might be missing something, but I doubt it works on Vista. Good article, but why can't you just install FF on a flash drive and use that? Or just figure out how he is blocking IE and disable that. :)
Futility 16 years ago
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I appreciate it. @ Skunkfoot- We got this thing at our school called LANschool, which allows the teacher to see what we are doing at all times. She runs FF on her computer, so if she sees FF.exe on ours, she'll catch us pretty fast. This help thing is more obscure, and wont draw attention to us.
@ThorsDecree- I'm not sure, but I'm definitely going to try it out tomorrow.
ghost 16 years ago
wow, that's kinda bad actually, a computer science class not allowing you to use the net during class :S seems stupid to me
ghost 16 years ago
Hey, to enable the right click, you have to go trough your registry, so, what I suggest you do, is create a *.reg file at home that enables the right click, then save it on a flashdrive or email it to yourself, then from there just install the *.reg file and your set, ~_o enjoy. :ninja:
SySTeM 16 years ago
Article's a tad short, as you've already stated, but it's still a great quality article, awesome concept too :)
ghost 16 years ago
Your article makes people aware of a useful trick, so I have to respect it for that. However, being on the defensive side, I can honestly tell you… it won't help you if your admin disables "Help and Support" (as all admins should). As for the right-click issue, don't believe others' solutions; the right-click block is a Group Policy setting, and cannot be trumped with a local "registry hack" or some such solution. Anyways, it was a cute article… I hope your later articles have a bit more meat to them.
Futility 16 years ago
Thanks again guys for all the positive comments. I would just like to say that I haven't rated it myself seeing as how my opinion doesn't really matter. I'll try to submit something useful again soon and make it longer.
ghost 16 years ago
could you not just bring firefox on a flash drive, then rename the executable to word.exe? thats if all she is looking at is a list of processes not screenshots.
Mouzi 16 years ago
The "Right click on the title bar" part can be done just by left clicking the icon on the left of the title bar. So you don't have to worry about any right click block.
R3M0T3 H4CK3R 16 years ago
usually unless it is wireless, if you unplug the network cable you cannot use the internet moshbat.
R3M0T3 H4CK3R 16 years ago
usually unless it is wireless, if you unplug the network cable you cannot use the internet moshbat.