maybe somebody can comment on this - Guru's , are also welcome to try and help :)

[railor]

I posted a question early last week , in which i asked if anybody knew how to make an app start with Windows ...
go here for the thread : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=33933

anyway , as you will see if you went to the thread , somedody replied and said i must mail them and they will send me the control that allows the program to be set as a service , NT style.

Now I have sent that guy like 3 mails over the course of last week and he doesnt come back , how is the cheek on that!

So , if anybody has such a control or knows of another way to do what i need to do , can they please reply urgently.
Thank you

[crispin]

For NT use: App.TaskVisible = False

For 95/98/ME Use:

Const RSP_SIMPLE_SERVICE = 1
Const RSP_UNREGISTER_SERVICE = 0
Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcessId Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function RegisterServiceProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwProcessID As Long, ByVal dwType As Long) As Long
Public Sub MakeMeService()
Dim pid As Long, reserv As Long
'Get the current process ID
pid = GetCurrentProcessId()
'Register as service
regserv = RegisterServiceProcess(pid, RSP_SIMPLE_SERVICE)
End Sub
Public Sub UnMakeMeService()
Dim pid As Long, reserv As Long
'Get the current process ID
pid = GetCurrentProcessId()
'Unregister as service
regserv = RegisterServiceProcess(pid, RSP_UNREGISTER_SERVICE)
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
'KPD-Team 1999
'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
'E-Mail: [email protected]
MakeMeService
'Right now, you're program is hidden from the CTRL-ALT-DEL-list
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
UnMakeMeService
End Sub
'from the API-Guide ALLAPI.NET

[railor]

ok , thnx for the help crispin
but i have already disabled the windows key combinations
therefore ctrl=alt+del will not work.
I still need help though , because i need the app to start up with Windows.

eg I run prog.
on form load event of main form i write to registry so that app starts with windows.
now if user presses reset button then app must start with windows .

All is fine until here , because the user can just hold shift while windows loads and then the prog wont start.
That defeats the point because this is a security app that locks the user's PC when he runs it (are u following me ?)

[HeSaidJoe]

I have no idea if this will work for you or not. I saw it in the postings and thought that perhaps you might want to give it a shot.

Public Declare Function GetCurrentProcessId Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Public Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Public Declare Function RegisterServiceProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwProcessID As Long, ByVal dwType As Long) As Long

'make an app not accessable throught the task list
'the app must be an executable for it to work.

Public Sub MakeMeService()
Dim pid As Long
Dim reserv As Long
pid = GetCurrentProcessId()
regserv = RegisterServiceProcess(pid, RSP_SIMPLE_SERVICE)
End Sub

Public Sub UnMakeMeService()
Dim pid As Long
Dim reserv As Long
pid = GetCurrentProcessId()
regserv = RegisterServiceProcess(pid, RSP_UNREGISTER_SERVICE)
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
MakeMeService
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
UnMakeMeService
End Sub

[crispin]

Im not 100% sure of this, but give it a go:

lob a registry key in:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

with the full path of your app, this might not get supressed with SHIFT on startup.

Be interested to know if it works or not...

[railor]

Originally posted by crispin
Be interested to know if it works or not...

hope you werent too interested , because i have tried it before you suggested it and it does work , except for holding in shift , which still disables the app startup

<bzzzzz> , "Wrong Answer , Please try again"

thanx anyway

anybody else wanna try ?