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Renaming executables to explorer.exe worked with the application whitelisting solution my school implemented. That's how we ended up with 8-player age of empir

• inlined 7y ago
  I created a directory with alt+255. It was an unprintable character and showed up last in any dir listing. At most it added an extra new line. That’s how I was one of the only students whose apps didn’t get caught during auditing.
• Sahhaese 7y ago
  That brings me back. All .exe were blocked. However it turned out that you could rename them .bat or .cmd and they would execute just fine. I think Doom 2 multiplayer was extra fun because of the added need to be aware not just of in-game enemies but also the need to be aware of the teacher and be ready to instantly quit at any moment.