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my boyfriend has put parental locks on our desktop. He is using multiple IP addresses on his laptop as well as multiple wi fi addresses. He has turned all files into dll and exe so they can not be ooened or read. Feeling stupid, but what does all this mean?
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Member 11013912 wrote: Feeling stupid, but what does all this mean?
That you're in a relationship with an idiot? But you know what they say - our choice in partner is a reflection of ourselves.
Marc
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Sounds like lots of "boy" and not much "friend".
Member 11013912 wrote: turned all files into dll and exe
Also sounds like B.S.
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Sounds like he prefers porn to you.
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Member 11013912 wrote: what does all this mean
That he's a controlling a**hole and you need to find a new boyfriend.
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It means you need a new boyfriend.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Try copying some of the (so called) dll or exe files to a new folder and then try renaming them to .jpg, .gif or .png, or possibly .doc, .txt or .zip and see if the file can be opened when renamed with a new extension.
And then have a good long talk with him starting with "Why?".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My advice. Date a human. If he doesn't trust you, he doesn't deserve you. If he is hiding things from you, he doesn't deserve you.
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I assume OP's in high school. her boyfriend is probably just hiding his extensive collection of porn. 
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Like what Mr. Maunder says.
i'd rename some as .txt then open in notepad and see if you can work out what type of file they really are.
Assuming he's really changed them and isn't just playing some prank that he can undo.
As soon as you can get access to email - send him one.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I'm curious - is she a developer or did she just stumble here looking for a general tech support site ? :P
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What makes you assume the OP is a she?
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Probability, but you're right, it's not a certainty.
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If those files are big size(like 500+MB), probably that'll be video files. Try Rename those files using video file extensions as Chris said(Ex. File1.dll -> File1.avi, BTW use VLC player to open video files).
Agree with others, he's not a boyfriend. Get rid of him
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Member 11013912 wrote: my boyfriend
Member 11013912 wrote: what does all this mean
You will get lots of responses - ignore them all.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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If there's a file called 2g1c.dll I strongly advise you to not try to look at that.
Believe me, it's better that way. Things that have been seen cannot be unseen.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Looked at it once, couldn't be unseen 
But got all my friends to look at it 
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2 guys 1 cow ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: 2 guys 1 cow ?
Close but no cigar! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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That's the (w)hole basis of the movie Human Centipede. Never seen 2G1C nor the centipede movies. Yes, it became a trilogy.
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Change the boyfriend. And also the parental "solution". How the f*** to change all files into binaries?
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Easy:
string path = @"D:\Temp\";
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
foreach (string file in files)
{
string newPath = file.Substring(0, file.Length - Path.GetExtension(file).Length) + ".exe";
if (file != newPath)
{
File.Move(file, newPath);
}
}
Mind you, you'll have to cope with the system files, and such like...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Thanks, I know *how to* do this. (And I'd prefer the much easier PathRenameExtension[^] instead of the buggy C# code - what happens if you have 1.txt and 1.exe and you rename 1.txt in 1.exe, for example?).
I was talking about how dumb a solution would be to rename everything in .dll and .exe.
I can't think a single reason to do this except an installer or update tool.
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I didn't know of any reasons either, but now I do: to mess with your significant other.
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