[RESOLVED] readting the User Account password on xp and later

[johncraw]

Thank you for your reply. I thought that this would be the case.
Let me explain what I am trying to do and see if anything can be done.
I am a vulunteer in a seniors centre. We have 14 pcs Until now, anyone could access any machine. This was causing some issues. In the future we want only computer club members or "guests" use the computers.
My brilliant idea was to have a program running that prevented CTRL-ALT-DEL and ALT-TAB sequences. On another forum I saw that this could be done using SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING, that would trick the system into thinking that the screensaver was on. The only way to exit this program was to enter the correct password.
Nightly, the password for this program would change, and an email sent to the person who would give out the passwords. This would prevent everyone from eventually knowing the passwords.
OK. pre xp that would work. However after that SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING does nothing, because it appears that screensaver is just an application, and exiting it just brings you to the logon screen. CTRL-ALT-DEL and ALT-TAB cannot be disabled.
With xp and later I thought that I could still change the password, and still email it to the person who would give out the passwords. I had hoped there would be a way, but obviously for security reasons there is not.
I had hoped to automate this because the person receiving the password updates daily, may not be computer literate.
If anyone can understand this explanation, and has any ideas as to how this could be accomplished please let me know. If I could disable CAD and Alt-Tab, I could still use the solution, but I have not found a method of doing this.
If not the only solution I can see is to have someone with the knowledge to daily, go to each machine and change the password.
I will keep this thread unresolved for a few days to see if anyone can suggest anything. If not I wil close it.
John
John