The locked down my OS

Any way i can force windows 2000 pro. into locked mode?? and i dont mean sleep, standby, or hibernate.

thanx!

Well i would do that but the fact of the matter is....
You cant make a program do things like that when it's locked because you could very easily make a proggie that unlocks it.

There has to be a api layin' around sumwhere....

'Add this to your project
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Private Declare Sub LockWorkStation Lib "user32.dll" ()

'Example usage:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
LockWorkStation
End Sub

Visual Programmer, sending CTRL-ALT-DEL is impossible. I am writing a macrorecorder and this is the only keystroke that can't be performed. I think it's a security issue. Maybe the keystroke is still queued, but ignored.

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Originally posted by hgroot
Visual Programmer, sending CTRL-ALT-DEL is impossible. I am writing a macrorecorder and this is the only keystroke that can't be performed. I think it's a security issue. Maybe the keystroke is still queued, but ignored.

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Yeah you can't use a global hook to catch CTRL-ALT-DEL
Its to make sure people don't hack the box or whatever

There's probably still a way to do it. For example, in a Citrix client you can remotely send CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Though not by using a 'simple' sendkey.

Hmmm.
Well yeah I'd say you can possibly send CTRL-ALT-DEL, because I know Microsoft NetMeeting can do it when you're controlling remote desktops. We use that for administering and fixing remote servers.

You just can't catch it is all... or so I read :rolleyes:

Then NetMeeting can capture it... :confused:

I do this from a Windows9x machine. Win9x doesn't have that security "feature"

I was thinking about CTRL-ALT-DEL. It is a security feature built into NT - there's an article on that at MS. What if you replace the keyboard driver or something at a lower level with your own custom version?

Hmmm... though you'd have to not pass the keystrokes up to a higher level if it was ctrl-alt-del...