How to get rid of Cold Turkey (website-blocker) / get around the block?
Just leaving this answer out there if someone happens to chance upon this thread, given that this was my first result in Google Search.
I believe there is an easier workaround. I have not tested it for blocks set for multiple days. I happened to have sites blocked for an hour when I rebooted my system (did not notice that the time had taken effect). I did not want to wait. Here is what I did:
- First, set your computer's time to any time past the current block. At least the current block will be visible under active blocks.
- This will allow you to delete all other blocks on your schedule, but not the one currently active. Do that and restart CTB. You should see that all your blocks have disappeared except the current active one.
- Because this block is already active, the change in date/time will not affect it. Just to be on the safer side, I restarted CTB in the previous step. Now reboot your system. When CTB starts up again, it should now see that the time is past its current active block and will not be actively blocking anything. Just remove your current active block and voila, you should be all set.
- You can now go ahead and uninstall CTB if you want to.
I have tested this on Windows 10 with CTB 3.10. Did not have to do anything messy with Startup Items or hosts files or anything else. Hope this helps someone, even though it is an old thread.