gHacks technology news » block access http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Prevent Blocks Basic Operations In Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/17/prevent-blocks-basic-operations-in-windows/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/17/prevent-blocks-basic-operations-in-windows/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:30:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16436 windows softwarePrevent is a little application for the Windows operating system that will block basic file operations while running. This can be useful for users who want to prevent that other users access and manipulate files on their computer system while they are away. This might not always be the perfect solution though as many users prefer to lock the computer system instead to prevent unauthorized access. Prevent however might make sense where access is allowed to the computer system, e.g. on a family computer.

Prevent will block the following operations while running on a computer system:

  • Stops Cut
  • Stops Paste
  • Stops Copy
  • Stops Delete
  • Stops Copy To
  • Stops Move to
  • Stops Send To
  • Prevents renaming
  • Disables Task Manager’s End Process button.

Users who work with the computer system while Prevent is running will not be able to copy and paste information or copy, delete, rename or move files on the system. A hotkey is available to stop the Prevent program from running so that the operations become available again. The system is obviously not fool proof. It is for example possible to use another program like Process Explorer to kill the process.

Prevent is available at the Windows Club website.

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Before I explain how to listen to Pandora from outside the United States I would like to ask a question: “I did use Pandora to find new music and I actually did buy some of the music that I found. Since I’m not allowed to use Pandora anymore I won’t find new music this way which means I won’t eventually buy new music. Do you think that this is a clever strategy ?” I have no usage stats for Pandora but would be excited to know the ratio of US to International users of the service.

Accessing Pandora from outside the United States is actually easier than you thought. All you need is a so called cgi-proxy which is located in the United States. Just search for cgi-proxy on Google – you will find hundreds of those proxies on the Internet. Just enter the url of pandora.com in the proxy form field and hit enter. Pandora should load as usual. (You could use Rapidwire.net for example for this)

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