Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Troubleshooting
Get A Windows Run Box Even if Run & Task Manager are Disabled
by Lee Mathews Sep 27th 2008
Thankfully, I discovered RunMimic to help me get around that annoying little issue. The 21k portable executable looks almost exactly like the regular Windows run box and it's just as functional.
All of the commands I normally need to issue worked without a hitch: services.msc, compmgmt.msc, control, appwiz.cpl, regedt32, cmd. RunMimic also had no problem getting Explorer to access my network file shares.
Since it's portable, this is a nice little app to keep on a flash drive in case of emergencies. RunMimic is not the kind of program I need often, but I tend to work by the old Boy Scout motto: "Be prepared."
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
