Black Coffee is probably the number one drink of system administrators throughout the world except maybe in the UK where they drink tea and in France where they drink wine (just joking guys). Black Coffee is a lightweight tool for system administrators to tweak settings in Windows. It was specifically designed to aid system administrators in modifying user and local administrator windows settings.
The software program can be run by system administrators and users of the system. The users can only look at the settings but do not have rights to change them. The program is divided into the three main categories Computer, Current User and IE.
Most of the program consists of checkboxes that enable or disable certain options. The computer category contains a few interesting options like disabling the ability to shutdown Windows, disabling Windows hotkeys or to always install applications with elevated privileges.
The tool for system administrators and advanced users is compatible to all Windows NT operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista.
Black Coffee certainly offers some nice helpful settings especially if you consider that it currently is offered in version 0.2 beta. One to look out for.
Update: A free version of Black Coffee is no longer provided. The software itself is now commercial and available for about $20 at the developer website. New features have been added to the program, including support for Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 and its server pendant Windows Server 2008 R2.
New features have also been added which include keylogging, url blocking and an administrator password to protect the software from unauthorized access.
Many of the features of Black Coffee are also available in other tweaking software. Take a look at applications like Gigatweaker or our Windows 7 Tweaks Software Overview for applications that fit the bill.
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being an Englishman in Texas I guess I’m all kinda messed up with what I drink :) though I should point out the English drink ‘Tea’ as ‘Tee’ is what you use in golf
I never understood cofee… :)
On app – one more tweaker. They are merely collections of registry values put in single interface. Not much value.
This is interesting, when the comment surpasses it’s object! – Frenchman in France I do drink wine, but I’m not an administrator! – Well indeed coffee is known to be such a companion of intellectual effort (tea is better for body effort!) that it even gets to be spilled on the desk!
Coffee, black, no milk no sugar (except for breakfast)
gpo is the way to go
This desktop security software would be great for local system administrators. And now there is Black Coffee 1.0 which has more features. Excellent find!