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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Portable App, "open with", "always use this app".

edit: right, locked down, executable whitelist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not at all practical in a large corporate IT setting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On a large scale, you're the guy having the rights setting things up. Obviously the Portable Apps hack is for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I suppose one might believe things were that simple if they lacked actual experience in enterprise IT.

Or perhaps you're just not arguing in good-faith because you only care about being "right" and not about actually understanding the use case.