"This computer's going to sleep after 3 minutes"

[Mark Agius]

You can hide your application from the 'Windows Task Manager'
by naming it with the 'hard space' character.

Eg.
File > Make <project>.exe.
Then in the title box delete the name then
press and hold down the left Alt key and type on the number pad 0160
This has named it as chr(160)
Repeat this for the Product Name as well if you wish.

It will then be displayed as an icon with no name when you press Ctrl_Alt+Delete

You can still save it as the old exe file name,
so don't need to edit it's name in the registry or what ever loads it to the new file.

[krtxmrtz]

You can hide your application from the 'Windows Task Manager'
by naming it with the 'hard space' character.
...

It's nice to learn a new little trick...

But I may have missed your point, I mean, it is not completely hidden after all. Anyone who would stop the process by ctrl/alt/del-ing is as likely to spot it when it comes as ".exe" as when it is called some other weird name. In both cases he/she may know/not know what is to be stopped.

[CDtech026]

the most convincing exe name would be something with random letters...
IE.... 'csrss.exe' or 'lsass.exe' or 'lkads.exe'... those are the scariest to 'stop'. cause some of them cause the system to shutdown if stopped.

... *Light bulb* ... find out which system process will shutdown the computer if stopped... then name your app the same as that. or maybe something slightly different. that way if someone tries to stop your app, they will have to play roulette and if they guess wrong, the comp shuts down anyways.

[chris1990]

It's easy if you think about it. I use one to stop my dad stayin on my pc for longer than he said. Only took two mins to make.

set timer at 1 second interval, and have two labels. In the label2 caption the time you want your daughter to stop using the pc.

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Label1 = Time
If Label1 = Label2 Then
Form2.Show
End If
End Sub

my form2 basically covers the screen, i get out of it by using ctrl+alt+del but you could change the code so on form load it shutsdown the pc after 3mins

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
    ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, _
    ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40
Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2
Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1


Private Sub Form_Load()
Label2 = Form1.Label2
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Label2 = Time
SetAlwaysOnTopMode Form2
End Sub

Sub SetAlwaysOnTopMode(hWndOrForm As Variant, Optional ByVal OnTop As Boolean = _
    True)
    Dim hWnd As Long
    ' get the hWnd of the form to be move on top
    If VarType(hWndOrForm) = vbLong Then
        hWnd = hWndOrForm
    Else
        hWnd = hWndOrForm.hWnd
    End If
    SetWindowPos hWnd, IIf(OnTop, HWND_TOPMOST, HWND_NOTOPMOST), 0, 0, 0, 0, _
        SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE Or SWP_SHOWWINDOW
End Sub

[krtxmrtz]

Also I think I once read about a possibility to disable ctrl/alt/del by code. Is this familiar to you guys?

[Pradeep1210]

I had read somewhere that if you compile your exe with the name "Services.exe", it can not be end tasked.

Give it a try

Pradeep

[krtxmrtz]

I had read somewhere that if you compile your exe with the name "Services.exe", it can not be end tasked.

Give it a try

Pradeep

You're quite right!