Please Help! Security Issue.

Hi everybody.

I'm running Win98 and have written a very rigorous login program that is run whenever Windows loads. It's a very extensive password system that I need to launch first whenever Windows loads.

The problem is: I initially just shelled it in the registry through the "CurrentVersion\Run" key, but that doesn't work when a user boots into safe mode.

To catch people booting into safe mode, I changed system.ini's shell= directive to shell my program first, which subsequently launched explorer.exe. The problem is that explorer.exe doesn't run as expected when launched second. The Desktop doesn't load, the taskbar is missing, etc..

Any ideas how to guarantee my password program's launch followed by a normal version of explorer.exe?

Thanks in advance.

[pro2]

try in the system.ini file .....
but be carefull ..

As was stated in my message, I already tried that... Anyone else?

I'm shelling Explorer.Exe after my password program is done. Any idea why Explorer.exe doesn't load my desktop or taskbar, etc. if anything runs before it? Thanks in advance...

[lphu]

Plow King,

just curious.... did you ever get your program to start
explorer successfully?....if so, how?... I'm working on
a program similar to yours and would greatly appreciate any
insight....

[pro2]

in the registry :
CurrentVersion/RunService