Thread: blocking ctrl + alt + delete

Originally posted by Stoned_Coder
Ther is a way. In fact I can think of 2 ways to do this on an NT box. One hard. One very hard. Write a keyboard filter driver or replace the GINA DLL with one of your own. There is lots of information on this at msdn if you look for it. You could make a bypass DLL rather than a replacement but its still a lot of work for little reward.

I didnt say there wasnt a way - I said there wasnt a single way that worked for all OS's.....But then I guess a filter driver would do ok if you created using WDM.......still as you said - a bit of a beast to code unless you are used to that sort of stuff.

Originally posted by Bug
I tryed this :

HWND hwnd = FindWindow("Shell_traywnd", NULL);
EnableWindow(hwnd, FALSE);

compiled it, and it works great, in alot of OS's like : XP, 98, 2k
mabye will work in all ( didnt have time to try it! )

why u all didnt give me a comment when I post this code, I've asked u, and nobody answered me, whatever! :\

Well I'm on XP and all it seemed to do was disable my taskbar - ctr-alt-del still worked as normal, but I couldnt use my start menu....

I am determined to find a way. None of you guys seem to know. And I know that most of you guys are the C++ technobrains of the world! There has to be a way to disable ctrl + alt + del on all windows OSes!

I only know how to with a delphi scripted.

Could someone who knows PLEASE ANSWER????

Best Regards,
Machewy

You have already been told the only way that would work for all windows oses is to write a keyboard filter driver. This is something that could probably be tracked down on the net. I would be surprised if this hasnt already been done but dont expect it for free.