Little trick for you...

aidan_walsh

Courtesy of F-Secure, who took inspiration from Roger Grimes.

Right-click on the Desktop
Create a new Shortcut
Point the location of the item to any executable... such as: c:\windows\system32\calc.exe
Name the shortcut, for example, www.microsoft.com
Start Internet Explorer (IE5 and IE6 work best, it also works with the IE7 latest)
Type "www.microsoft.com" into the address bar
Enjoy.

WizZard

:eek:

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that easy eh?

kaizersoze

aidan_walsh wrote:

Enjoy.

Enjoy what??
Followed the instructions, typed in www.microsoft.com and went to......microsoft.com
What was I supposed to see?
Might be a Vista thing.:)

Karoma

For those too lazy to try and/or read:

The trick is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 beta can be fooled into running Windows desktop shortcuts instead of going to the Internet. For example, right-click your desktop and choose Create a Shortcut. Tell the shortcut to run Notepad.exe, but name the shortcut "www.aol.com." Now type www.aol.com into IE (Internet Explorer) and see what happens. Instead of going to www.aol.com, IE starts Windows notepad.

kaizersoze

Karoma wrote:

For those too lazy to try and/or read:


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The trick is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 beta can be fooled into running Windows desktop shortcuts instead of going to the Internet. For example, right-click your desktop and choose Create a Shortcut. Tell the shortcut to run Notepad.exe, but name the shortcut "www.aol.com." Now type www.aol.com into IE (Internet Explorer) and see what happens. Instead of going to www.aol.com, IE starts Windows notepad.

Is that it?:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
It doesn't work with IE7 in Vista.

mukki

that is brilliant, i can set the pcs at work to log off if someone types in www.bebo.com now just put in a shortcut to shutdown -l

TerrorFirmer

mukki wrote:

that is brilliant, i can set the pcs at work to log off if someone types in www.bebo.com now just put in a shortcut to shutdown -l

lol, not bad at all.

Tar.Aldarion

mukki wrote:

that is brilliant, i can set the pcs at work to log off if someone types in www.bebo.com now just put in a shortcut to shutdown -l

That's exactly what I was thining, but for college.
>_>

SouperComputer

mukki wrote:

that is brilliant, i can set the pcs at work to log off if someone types in www.bebo.com now just put in a shortcut to shutdown -l

ROFL