Unable To Right-Click Mouse

[far-beyond-driven]

This is another computer restriction problem. Sounds silly? :)

I use a public access computer for the internet and want to save things like avi but can't because the right-click context menu on the mouse has been disabled. It's possible to save many other formats as a dialogue will pop up asking you to save if just left-clicked. Even Media Player (version 9) will let you save something if it's playing.

Avis when clicked on will automatically transfer to a temp location and then give an error at the end of the dl saying access to the file is not allowed.

There must be a way round this trivial thing, it's not that they've banned avis from being downloaded, I just there is no codec for avi in media player.

So, I'm on a machine running Win 2000, can't install any software/drivers, can't access the HD, just My Docs, DVD-ROM and USB device. The computer is pretty locked down.

How can I save formats like avi that don't bring up a save dialogue box?

[vahnx]

This is a program I made at school to get around anything but websense pretty much. It also enables right clicking, so it may work. Follow the readme.txt, it's only 3 quick steps. Download the zip file here (uppit.com/5XMOL).

[far-beyond-driven]

Thanks for the tool, but it hasn't been able to change things in the registry, there must be something else in the way. I can actually get into the run app and do regedit, but my knowledge is very limited in editing. Curiously, it will launch your .exe file and it would never launch any unknown apps before..

I had an idea for something after seeing things like keepvid.com and vixy.net. Would there be a peice of html code (a box) I could put on my webspace to 'fetch' links and display a popup save dialogue?

[madman22]

if you can get into the registry, the keys to change are in


HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policie s\Explorer

i wrote a program to change all the keys in there but it only works if you can edit the registry.