How To Unblock Applications

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On most computers in organizations, colleges and companies, installing new applications it not allowed. Your network administrator would normally have taken away the rights that are required to install applications. You only need to manage with the existing applications or the ones that they give you the permission to use. This can obviously become quite stifling and frustrating after a while. This is where something known as portable applications are so useful.

Portable Application are applications that can run independently on their own straight from a pen drive, memory card, camera, MP3 player or CD without the need of an operating system or without the need of making any changes to the system files. Ones portable applications are used on a computer they do not leave behind any temporary files, system file changes or registry changes on it. These qualities make portable applications very useful for people who want to run applications on a system that are not allowed. There are portable versions of almost all popular web applications like browsers, instant messengers, torrents and others.

Let us assume that your system administrator has uninstalled Google Talk or Skype from your system and has not given you the rights to install any new applications on your machine. You are really desperate to chat with your friends. What do you do? This is where portable applications come into the picture. Since portable applications do not require anything to be installed, neither do they require any changes to be made on the host machine, they are ideal in case of application restrictions. There is a very good freely downloadable portable instant messenger application called Pidgin (www.skyhackingtricks.blogspot.com) that runs directly from a USB pen drive and allows you to connect to all the popular instant messenger accounts like Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo and others. The steps that you need to follow to use a portable application like Pidgin are:

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Step-1 Download Pidgin Portable from the internet and install it on a USB pen drive of your choice. The complete application along with all the files it requires to run will get installed in a folder in your pen drive.

Step-2 Plug the USB pen drive to the machine which has put in place restrictions to prevent you from using instant messengers. Browse to the folder where pidgin has been installed on the pen drive and double click on the Pidgin portable icon to launch the application. No installation will be required. It will allow you to connect to most popular instant Messenger like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook and others. Type your respective user name and password and start chatting! Once you are done chatting, just exit the application and it will not leave any traces behind on your computer.

Similarly, it is possible to run portable versions of a variety of different applications that are common not allowed to be installed by system administrators in colleges and companies. For example

1. Mozilla Firefox Portable can be used to browse without restrictions in case the browser installed on your computer has some website blocks in place.

2. Torrent Portable can be used to download torrents if installing torrent download clients on your computer is not allowed.

3. Skype Portable can be used to chat and make phone calls using Skype even if installing Skype on your computer is not allowed.

4. And many others.

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