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September 4th, 2001, 06:22 PM
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Oh. Well, I would GUESS that WinBoost, instead of actually running and disabling things through software, is instead changing REGISTRY values so that windows itself does the work. (Hiding the A: drive is an example of this) So a good registry-editing program should let you get around it.
I would suggest trying the Windows Policy Editor (I hope that link works, otherwise try here) to edit some often-changed things, like disabling/enabling the control panel and such.
Here are some examples of Registry-related windows 'security' things you can do.
Just to clear it up, the windows Registry is basically a database within two files, c:\windows\system.dat, and a user.dat file which might be in different places depending on your setup. These can't just be edited in notepad or anything, you need a special program (usually windows regedit.exe, although others exist).
Edit: By the way, messing with your registry by hand, or even at all by yourself, is a sure way to be able to seriously mess up windows. I would be very careful, because if you mess it up, your warranty won't help you. If you DO decide to mess with a computer, try backing up any .DA0 (d-a-zero) files, (those are backups of the system.dat and user.dat files, just renamed. Windows makes them automatically each time you start up.)
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