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- From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
- Subject: Re: disabling extensions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.052648.7702@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <92358.150936P88038@BARILVM.BITNET> <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 05:26:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
- >Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
- >:
- >: Hi,
- >:
- >: I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
- >: when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
- >: disabled.
- >:
- >: Any help will be appreciated.
- >
- >As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
- >Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
-
- Has anybody wondered WHY he wants to bypass the universal short-cut? If
- all of a sudden people want to design INITs that can't be disabled, than
- one level of protection for your computer (bypassing INITs that cause
- problems, for example) is gone. Although I can see the use of INITs that
- can't be bypassed (security programs, for example) I'd be wary of using an
- extension that would, quite definitely, be breaking Apple's design guidlines.
-
- Jay (=
-