Wanna surf the internet without opening up internet explorer, firefox, or opera? This trick might save you from detention when you go back to school and go on my site.

Open up Notepad. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad

Press F1 to bring up the Help.

Click the top left corner (the icon) of the help window.

Select Jump to URL…

Type in http://nerdnirvana.org.

Now when your teachers come around to check out the windows you’ve opened, you won’t get caught!

You are a genious. This is really useful but, in school they allow us to visit all kinds of sites, for some weird reason. It won't be of any use for me, at least, many others will use it.

Although some school networks have blocks in certain keywords... and this method uses internet explorer... so they may still not be able to visit these sites.

yeah me too. i used lynx to surf the net. in that way they won't know what site i'm visiting unless they read my screen.

Wow thank you very much! This will be useful at work! You can never go wrong with notepad. hehe.

Thanks... This helps to some extend.
First the usual typing of the website name alone did not work... but the full address of the site works fine...

Few more questions here?
Is this the only way to do this?

Do we have any other options in windows? If so... it would be great to share it with us. Thanks in advance.

Also.... It is possible to define your own browser via some libraries in the microsoft based languages... I was searching for something for one of my packages back in college and i did find that there was such an option to create a browser of our own... Still that might not be able to match the top class browsers,,, still it might be of some help where things are blocked. i have never heard much about blocking IE and any other browser usage for that matter.

Anyways have to experiment stuffs.

Well there are other ways I'm sure. I got busted at school, when I accidentally sent a message to every computer downtown that was on at the time. I did this using command prompt. I also opened certain blocked sites with this, but I wont release how because it could get you into a lot of trouble, when the computer guy look at your file and sees wat you did. BUT, I did make a browser, that has no history, and doesnt place any of it on IE, so if you download it and put it on a USB, and plug it into your computer at school/WORK, then you can surf watever you want at no cost! should i post download? Tell me.

This post has been edited by miikerocks: Jul 18 2008, 09:06 PM

How did you manage that? Sounds awesome, like something you'd have to see to believe, but I can't help but think that if you did distribute it, a lot of people would start using it for illegal or questionable purposes.

Making your own web browser is not all too hard. You can do it in Visual Basic (VB) with ease. Here is a quick tutorial if you need more evidence:
http://www.acky.net/tutorials/vb/wbrowser/
( First link from Google. )

It's a good idea, but I don't think it'll work at our school, simply because most teachers don't look at whether or not you're using a browser. But they DO look at what's on the screen. So if you're going to a site that obviously doesn't look like a History essay (which is most sites), they'll notice. And a lot of the teachers at our school know to get suspicious students to actually open up the taskbar windows to show them.
For us, filtering is delivered at the proxy level. And we are required to login using a student account each time we use the internet. So it doesn't matter what browser we use, we still have to connect to the proxy that delivers the filtering. And no matter what the best tech geeks try, NOTHING gets past it. Every single proxy server we have tried is blocked, and other tools like Tor don't work either.
We get away with a lot of things because our student accounts are all remote desktops. But the client also has software installed on it. So what we generally do is surf the net or play games on the client, and when the teacher comes around, we open the full-screen remote desktop session which hides all the client's windows and taskbar etc. and even if they ask us to open our taskbar windows to show them, they'll never suspect anything outside the remote desktop session.
But the client software is very restricted. The start menu just has the shut down option, a very restricted selection of software, and the shortcuts to the terminal server (i.e. our remote desktops). The computers don't let us open up explorer, but we've been able to get around this using explorer toolbars on the taskbar, which haven't yet been disabled. Don't even think about command prompt or regedit.
Yes, we have a very restricted set of permissions. But hey, we have some of the most tech-savvy students in the state. So the tech admin department has go to pretty desperate measures. Just recently, one of my friends got hold of the admin password. But he's too ethical to use it to change anything.