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Comment by sdfjkl | Hacker News Reader

Oh look, free, anonymous Windows VMs for 20 minutes (it's trivial to open CMD.EXE from any browser in the saucelabs setup). Any statistics on what people run in those VMs, other than browsers?

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How do you do that? When I type "C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" in the browser bar it says "Access to that resource has been disallowed."

  1. Go to File > Open, then click Browse...
  2. In 'File name', type 'c:\windows\system32' and press enter
  3. Change the 'Files of type' field to 'All Files'
  4. Drag any of the files into the 'cmd' icon

Bonus: type `explorer C:\` if you want to snoop around. There's a copy of Safari at C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.exe

I'd be interested in an article on this topic, please write it!

You can get more free VM time from EC2

But they ask you to sign up first.

None, yet. :-)

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