Method for inhibiting an executable program in a disk operating system by replacing the program with an unexecutable program
First Claim
1. A method for inhibiting an executable formatting file in a disk operating system installed on a hard disk of a computer having at least one external drive, comprising the steps of:
- inserting into an external drive a distribution disk including an ineffective substitute file;
copying the formatting file from the hard disk to the distribution disk and removing it from the hard disk;
copying the substitute file from the distribution disk to the hard disk;
renaming the substitute file on the hard disk with the same filename as the removed executable file and an executable extension; and
removing the distribution disk containing the copied formatting file from the external drive.
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Abstract
A computer program, comprising a series of batch processes filed on a separte distribution disk, inhibits an executable program in a disk operating system (DOS). In one embodiment, the batch file of a process, unconditionally ineffective for replicating the functions of the executable program, is transferred from a distribution disk to the computer'"'"'s DOS and renamed with the filename of the executable program but with an externally executable extension. The DOS file of the executable program is transferred to the distribution disk and renamed with an externally unexecutable extension. In another embodiment, the batch file of the process is conditionally ineffective for replicating the executable program. The user is required to elect, to the exclusion of at least one designated drive in the computer, a drive on which the executable program can be executed.
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1. A method for inhibiting an executable formatting file in a disk operating system installed on a hard disk of a computer having at least one external drive, comprising the steps of:
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inserting into an external drive a distribution disk including an ineffective substitute file; copying the formatting file from the hard disk to the distribution disk and removing it from the hard disk; copying the substitute file from the distribution disk to the hard disk; renaming the substitute file on the hard disk with the same filename as the removed executable file and an executable extension; and removing the distribution disk containing the copied formatting file from the external drive. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. In a computer disk operating system installed on a hard disk of a computer having at least one external drive, a method for preventing use of an executable file in the computer, comprising the steps of:
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inserting a distribution disk into said external drive; copying to the hard disk an ineffective substitute file contained in said distribution disk; causing the computer to search specified paths in the hard disk for the executable file; copying to the distribution disk the executable file found in the search and removing said executable file from the hard disk; causing the computer to rename the extension of the copied executable file for inhibiting execution thereof; and causing the computer to rename the substitute file on the hard disk with the same filename as the executable file and an extension executable by the disk operating system. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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