How to Block / Restrict Access to Windows Program with Empathy
January 25, 2009 – 12:07 pmThere are times when you want people to access your Windows computer without having to bother about setting up a user account for them. Still, you need to restrict / block them from accessing some of the programs inside your computer . With Empathy, you can achieve this in just a few steps.
Empathy allows you to prevent access to any applications of your own choosing. It does this by equipping any executable files that you choose with a password. Simple and effective.
How Empathy Works
1- Install and run Empathy.
2- Select any application’s executable files that you want to protect.
3- Enter and confirm your password (two times).
4- I suggest you choose the “Create a backup before processing” option to create a backup for the executable that you choose in (2). If the password-protecting process did not work as expected, you can rename the backup file to its original filename (e.g. file.bak to file.exe)
5- Lastly, click the “Protect” button to complete the process.
The next time anybody wants to run that application, Empathy will prompt a password form to be filled! Cool!
The only downside of Empathy is that it only allows you to key in a single character password. To get the full capability, you have to send a postcard to acknowledge the author for using his software thus the term “postcardware”.
Still, if you need to restrict / block access to any Windows program in a snap, Empathy is the one that you need!
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4 Responses to “How to Block / Restrict Access to Windows Program with Empathy”
thanks, a really cool tool to restrict windows apps, I recently had a prob trying to restrict them by editing registry which resulted in a crash. This will make my job quite Easier, thanks for Sharing..
By Nicholas | Pixobyte.com on Jan 26, 2009
sounds great tool and i loved the pic you use in post
By Sohail on Feb 3, 2009
Great find… Thanks for sharing this…
By Nihar on Feb 5, 2009
empathy..
its name is similar to the name of an IM client in linux
By flip9 on Feb 8, 2009