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ways to temporary Disable the start Menu in Windows

Recently my task is developing a program to keep track the user logon.

User after successed login on from the Windows logon, he will come to this program to provide login details on the 2nd security stage.

If he success logon from this stage, then only the Windows desktop environment come out as usual.

my problem is:

Is that any solution to temporary disable the 'Start Menu' in the desktop environment during the 2nd security stage while user requested to logon here.
This is becos currently if user use keyboard's shortcutKey (eg. Ctrl + Esc),
the 'Start Menu' still coming out.

Any idea?

The program is developed in visual .Net environment.

Thanks.
Aug 18 '07 #1
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kenobewan
4,871 Expert 4TB
There is not a way to disable the start menu. If your code runs into this problem it means that you have the wrong solution.
Aug 19 '07 #2
There is not a way to disable the start menu. If your code runs into this problem it means that you have the wrong solution.
what u mean this?
Is that there is impossible to do what i want, in order to temporary disable the 'Start Menu' during the 2nd user logon stage?
Aug 20 '07 #3
Plater
7,872 Expert 4TB
You will need to disable it with security settings in the user profile.
(Not something you can do in code I don't believe) You can remove certain things from the startmenu making it not really usefull for anything except what you decide it to have.

The systems in say a "Borders" bookstore do something snarky where they have a fullscreen app that's always ontop and then they have blocked out the various keypresses (ctrl+esc, alt+tab, ctrl+alt+del). If you enter in the security code it unlocks it and you can see the windows environment.
I think they do it with sneaky windows32 api calls.
Aug 20 '07 #4
You will need to disable it with security settings in the user profile.
(Not something you can do in code I don't believe) You can remove certain things from the startmenu making it not really usefull for anything except what you decide it to have.

The systems in say a "Borders" bookstore do something snarky where they have a fullscreen app that's always ontop and then they have blocked out the various keypresses (ctrl+esc, alt+tab, ctrl+alt+del). If you enter in the security code it unlocks it and you can see the windows environment.
I think they do it with sneaky windows32 api calls.

ok. thanks yo information.

can i know where can i find those information that u descride on above?
I just want to get idea from it.

Thanks
Aug 22 '07 #5
Plater
7,872 Expert 4TB
Unfortunatly I do not, as I've never done it myself.
I would suggest just a lot of searching with different phrases.

I think the functions you need will be in user32.dll though.
Aug 22 '07 #6
Unfortunatly I do not, as I've never done it myself.
I would suggest just a lot of searching with different phrases.

I think the functions you need will be in user32.dll though.

ok. Thank you info.

I try get help from others.
Aug 23 '07 #7

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