Ways to open command line

SlickSlick Upstate New York
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
With the school year fast aproaching I am looking for more ways to do net sends and other annoying things on the school network. Last year quite a few people figured out how to do it, so now they have tried to block our access to the command line. How many other ways are their to launch one on an NT or 2000 windows based system. The little ms-dos prompt things now yields a, "You do not have proper permission to execute this program" message, so we started typeing, 'cmd' or 'command'. Eventually those gave a message saying, your admininstrator has disabled this function. So my question is what other ways can we open the command lines :).

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    The most foolproof way is launching a browser and inputting this address:

    c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe

    You can also do that in windows explorer. Also you can make a bat file on your desktop:

    c:
    cd winnt
    cd system 32
    cmd.exe

    Which will change the drive to c:\, navigate to winnt, then system32 and launch cmd.exe
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited August 2003
    if all you're wanting to do is a net send you wouldn't even need to use the command line froma DOS prompt.

    Just type "net send [MACHINE] text" into the RUN dialog found on the start menu.
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited August 2003
    Rather not leave the history on my run bar.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    a2jfreak said
    if all you're wanting to do is a net send you wouldn't even need to use the command line froma DOS prompt.

    Just type "net send [MACHINE] text" into the RUN dialog found on the start menu.

    Most places disable the Run command anyway, so that wouldn't work.

    Not sure if Thraxs' idea will work if they have actually dissallowed opening the prompt entirely (sure I have seen options to do that...)

    NS
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited August 2003
    I've seen both ways: disable run, or disabling access to explorer.

    Thrax's way is definitely the easiest if access to explorer isn't blocked, but I was just mentioning using the run dialog to issue the net send in case running explorer was blocked.

    Also, if both explorer.exe and run are disabled, then you can try to bring up the task manager ctrl+shift+esc in W2K and alt+ctrl+del in WXP. Then using the run from there.
    NightShade737 said
    a2jfreak said
    if all you're wanting to do is a net send you wouldn't even need to use the command line froma DOS prompt.

    Just type "net send [MACHINE] text" into the RUN dialog found on the start menu.

    Most places disable the Run command anyway, so that wouldn't work.

    Not sure if Thraxs' idea will work if they have actually dissallowed opening the prompt entirely (sure I have seen options to do that...)

    NS
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited August 2003
    No our task manager is blocked, which is quite stupid and senceless, because if something freezes up or a million popups spawn on our screen there isnt anything we can do. The only thing we can do is tell the admin, who uses his 'admin tool' which is the equivilant of a remote trojan to kill the screens on our desktop.
  • MancabusMancabus Charlottesville, VA
    edited August 2003
    Here's what you do:

    Open up IE. In the address bar type this: X:\windows\system32\progman.exe or X:\winnt\system32\progman.exe where X = drive letter.

    This will open the Program Manager (not task manager). You can invoke the Run thing from this program, via file run, then type in cmd.

    Program manager can be run from windows explorer too.

    Anything run from windows explorer can be run from IE
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited August 2003
    Hah, nice ;).
  • tophericetopherice Oak Ridge, TN
    edited September 2003
    Here's a script you can use for net send.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited September 2003
    Heres a hack I have done to unlock the command prompt if locked down. This may only work on win95/98.

    Make a text file with nothing but the word command in it. save it as command.bat, and double click it. The command prompt should appear.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited September 2003
    The above also works in XP/NT/2000. Just tested.
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited September 2003
    If you want to go really creative, you can use Powerpoint and I believe Word to setup links to programs on your PC and nine times out of ten, we were able to start programs on our network. However, our school used Novell, so that may be a vulnerability limited to only that shell.
  • podes88podes88
    edited April 2005
    hay slick i have the EXACT same problem that you do with command prompt in that it says some bull about me not being autherized or it was disabled. most of the things here say how to open command prompt which is not the problem, the problem is disabling the admisistrators autherezation thing, so i was wondering if you have had any success with this? if not still tell or even if u got close
  • LaurentCLaurentC
    edited February 2009
    Omg I tried like 10 of these tricks and still wont work on my school computer lol
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2009
    If they've locked access to command prompt through Group Policy rules - none of those tricks will work. That's the point of group policy rules. It prevents command prompt from opening regardless of how you try to invoke it.

    Oh and holy thread necromancy batman.
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