Control Panel (need an answer quick)

[NerdWigger]

I don't mean to post this again but no one is giving me what i need, so can someone please give me some code to disable the control panel through api? (and code to bring it back again of course) I downloaded a code tutorial on how to do this, even a demo project, but it doesn't work, this is very frustrating. Any help would be much appreciated, thanx!

Take a look at this link:

http://www.winguides.com/search.php?guide=registry&mode=or&hits=20&keywords=Disable+Control+Panel

[NerdWigger]

Can you just give me the vb code to change the registery from vb?

Use this code from Megatron.


Public Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000
Public Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
Public Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Public Const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003
Public Const HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA = &H80000004

Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hkey As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegCreateKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegDeleteKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String) As Long
Declare Function RegDeleteValue Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteValueA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String) As Long
Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegOpenKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegQueryValueExA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, lpData As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType As Long, lpData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long

Function RegQueryStringValue(ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal strValueName As String)

Dim lResult As Long
Dim lValueType As Long
Dim strBuf As String
Dim lDataBufSize As Long

On Error GoTo 0
lResult = RegQueryValueEx(hkey, strValueName, 0&, lValueType, ByVal 0&, lDataBufSize)
If lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS Then
If lValueType = REG_SZ Then
strBuf = String(lDataBufSize, " ")
lResult = RegQueryValueEx(hkey, strValueName, 0&, 0&, ByVal strBuf, lDataBufSize)
If lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS Then
RegQueryStringValue = StripTerminator(strBuf)
End If
End If
End If

End Function

Public Function GetString(hkey As Long, strpath As String, strvalue As String)

Dim keyhand&
Dim datatype&
r = RegOpenKey(hkey, strpath, keyhand&)
GetString = RegQueryStringValue(keyhand&, strvalue)
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand&)

End Function

Function StripTerminator(ByVal strString As String) As String
Dim intZeroPos As Integer

intZeroPos = InStr(strString, Chr$(0))
If intZeroPos > 0 Then
StripTerminator = Left$(strString, intZeroPos - 1)
Else
StripTerminator = strString
End If
End Function

Public Sub savestring(hkey As Long, strpath As String, strvalue As String, strdata As String)

Dim keyhand&
r = RegCreateKey(hkey, strpath, keyhand&)
r = RegSetValueEx(keyhand&, strvalue, 0, REG_SZ, ByVal strdata, Len(strdata))
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand&)

End Sub


Usage


Private Sub Command1_Click()

'Save a Value to the Registry
savestring HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Myapp", "Testing", "Hello"

End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()

'Get a value from the Registry
Retval = GetString(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Myapp", "Testing")
Print Retval

End Sub