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I had to use one of those as a student.

ACRORD32.EXE was actually cmd.exe

WINWORD.EXE was actually Mozilla

...and so on

Edit: one of those exes was regedit and every time I sat down I'd delete all the keys named Policies as a routine excersize. After that, restart explorer with one of the tricks. I don't remember the specific one but it wasn't officially documented iirc.

https://superuser.com/questions/335917/how-can-you-do-a-clea...




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