Full control over user, how?

[Sergey Muschin]

Hi there,

How to prevent a user from rebooting computer, invoking Task Manager,
activating Task Bar , etc.
API? Any available tools, classes? Any ideas ?

Regards,
Sergey Muschin

[Mark Mullin]

oh surely you jest.........
better qualify the OS, it's much harder to do on 2K/XP pro.

And you really have to indicate whether this is for normal users, or
the potentially very savvy, as the first is fairly simple, and the
second not so....

you could head hook the keyboard, that would be a start :-)

I'm pretty sure theres no way to override the reset button, save for a
few magical blue screens that stall the proc...
"Sergey Muschin" <Se************@tonservices.com> wrote in message news:<#e**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...

Hi there,

How to prevent a user from rebooting computer, invoking Task Manager,
activating Task Bar , etc.
API? Any available tools, classes? Any ideas ?

Regards,
Sergey Muschin

[Walter]

DONT TELL HIM!!!
He'll drive users crazy, I hate applications that "take
over your computer" like AOL and a lot of the spy-ware
programs. If you must, 2000 and XP have a ton of settings
for users, you could disable users rights to shut down the
computer, load task manager etc.

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"Sergey Muschin" <Se************@tonservices.com> skrev i meddelandetnews:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi there,

How to prevent a user from rebooting computer, invoking

TaskManager,

activating Task Bar , etc.
API? Any available tools, classes? Any ideas ?
Take his mouse and keyboard away? Tie him to the chair?
Why would you ever want to do this? Your users will

certainly not likeit!

Regards,
Sergey Muschin

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[Don]

AFAIK rubber-hose decryption techniques are the only way to exert
control over users.
Stu Smith wrote:

Actually it's a fair point. BUT it depends on the application.
In the pubs near us we have these quiz machines. We once managed to blue
screen one, and it was running NT. In that sort of application, you do need
to disable reboots (although you've probably got a custom keyboard...).

But I agree, for a desktop application, it would probably be a very bad
idea.
"Mark Mullin" <mu****@vibrant3d.com> wrote in message
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oh surely you jest.........
better qualify the OS, it's much harder to do on 2K/XP pro.

And you really have to indicate whether this is for normal users, or
the potentially very savvy, as the first is fairly simple, and the
second not so....

you could head hook the keyboard, that would be a start :-)

I'm pretty sure theres no way to override the reset button, save for a
few magical blue screens that stall the proc...
"Sergey Muschin" <Se************@tonservices.com> wrote in message

news:<#e**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...

Hi there,

How to prevent a user from rebooting computer, invoking Task Manager,
activating Task Bar , etc.
API? Any available tools, classes? Any ideas ?

Regards,
Sergey Muschin

[Jochen Kalmbach]

Sergey Muschin wrote:

How to prevent a user from rebooting computer, invoking Task Manager,
activating Task Bar , etc.
API? Any available tools, classes? Any ideas ?

You should set up the right policy for this computer (Group policy /
Computer policy). This is the right way of doing this.

See also:
Developing a Group Policy Implementation Strategy
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr.../reskit/deploy
/ccmdepl/ccmch05.asp

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Greetings
Jochen

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http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/leakfinder.asp