Hello all.
I am a High school student, currently in Year 11. The Department of Education and Training has issued each individual student (at year 9) with their own netbook. Now, I need to use a program that was not installed on the netbook prior to commisioning, in order to gain access/complete my work. This program is a secure partition GUI, or whatever. Basicly it gives me access to my secure partition on my thumbdrive which has all my work on it (other student like to delete stuff and put discrimatory images on hard-drives/thumb-drives etc).
My problem? The department have placed group policies (exact number is unknown) that block the majority of .exe files, .bat files, and other unathorized files. I used to be able to bypass this by runing as administrator, untill that was fixed, and up until 28/2/11 at just past 9:15 am, i was able to do this via a sub directory under the Presets folder for Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0.
I understand that there is a location within windows that the group policies fail to maintain, yet write protection seems to compensate. The group policies prevents any standard user from gaining access to the registry, or modifying group policy objects. Much more than that is unknown.
I also understand that there is a certain level of uncertainty if I should be allowed to use this program, as my user charter states that I may not install any programs without authorisation, but the netbook was issued to me under the condition that it is used to aid/assist my efficiency in my work, if you understand me.
Another fact that i recently uncovered is that microsoft sync center syncronizes 'SYSVOL' from a remote server, on a regular basis, and this sync'd folder contains folders about Policies, and Policy definitions.
I would like to know how I could override, or bypass, or even avoid the effects of the group policies. If anyone could nail down a location that group policies cannot target without damaging the operating system, yet is perfectly safe to place a subfolder into, I would be very grateful.
Also, if i could possibly prevent future updates to group policies, or even remove them completely, i would be verry verry happy. thank you.