Many places like schools, public pc cafe’s etc block the command prompt to keep the ever so intrigued away from it. Here are some ideas as how to open the cmd when you have it blocked:
1. Open the calculator and click on help > help topics.
When the help window opens right next to where it says ‘calculator’ ( top left corner ) there is a ‘ ? ‘ symbol , right click on it and select jump to URL and put this;
file:///c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe
then click open. Magic the command prompt opens automatically. If calculator is blocked you can do the same in any of the windows XP games.
2. Using the same text as above; “file:///c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe”
You can open Excel and create a HYPERLINK with the this text, click OK and then click in the link in the excel cell. Click OK in both windows that will pop up and the command prompt will open.
3. Open notepad, type cmd.exe and save it as “anynamehere.bat”.
Run this bat file and enjoy the dark confines of the command prompt.
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fastdump June 7th, 2007 at 4:12 am
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I was advsied of another route at work just the other day…
If you can get to the Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) you should be able to select File > New Task (Run…) to get to the usual Run window! :grin:
labrat June 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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another good top fastdump
Definately another alternative
AnarchyLeader July 30th, 2007 at 12:20 am
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I have a problem if you could help that would be great. When I enter the prompt it has a message that once I push a button it exits out. This is really pissing me off. Any ideas or anything would be great.
Jack October 15th, 2007 at 5:13 am
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At my school the it department has blocked most of the commands for command prompt so when i enter them they dont work
is ther any way i cam get around this?
Anon. May 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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Thankyou Hacklabs!
zormino June 20th, 2008 at 7:56 am
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open microsoft office and type
run.com
command.com
click save as, then go down to save as type and choose plain text
save as something.bat
when you clock save a new window should appear that lets you pick encoding, chose ms-dos
open this file and it opens command prompt
1334 July 11th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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you can also make a .bat file that jsut says one of the following.
start
command
command.com
also: the name of the .bat file doesn’t matter one bit at all
minime September 9th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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when i open a command promt it says that it has been disabled and then it disappears. i’ve tried all the ways and the same thing keeps happening. as for the .bat file well we can’t open them as they’ve been blocked. how can i get in???
Clarkie January 30th, 2009 at 3:23 am
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Hi,
This doesn’t work for me. I have found ways of opening CMD but it just says “Command Prompt has been disabled by your administrator. Press any button to continue…” Is there a way of enabling it? If not is there a program you can use instead. It would have to be a file that is one exe not more because exe files are blocked so I have to open them in Powerpoint and you can’t use files that run from other files because it embeds the file.
Thanks,
Clarkie