here is another one, how can i disable the window's key in VB?? tnx for the help guys       

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Win9x tell the OS that a screensaver's running (code exists elsewhere on the board).

NT->I believe requires some system editing (registry changes), unless your trying to create a program to completely lock down a system (like for a demo PC in a store), it's not easy. As a note, even games that have a disable windows key, it doesn't always work, and it's coded in C.

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hello, noycez...

again, to clear things up, i created my signature below..

i've tried this on win98, and it works like a charm....

when you load your program and do the ctrl+alt+del thing...
(if you've found an alternative for win2k already)

use the two subs on load and unload...
load: hidetaskbar
unload: showtaskbar

i would suggest that if you intend to do the maximization of the form's size, try to start first with making the taskbar autohide, so your screen won't look a bit disturbing...

you'll see what i mean when you try without the autohide.

here's the code...

Option Explicit 'for hiding and showing the taskbar Private TaskBarhWnd As Long Private Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40 Private Const SWP_HIDEWINDOW = &H80 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      Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _    Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal _    lpWindowName As String) As Long '------------------------------------------------------ 'hide the taskbar to secure the pc from unauthorized access Public Sub HideTaskBar()     TaskBarhWnd = FindWindow("Shell_traywnd", "")     If TaskBarhWnd <> 0 Then        Call SetWindowPos(TaskBarhWnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_HIDEWINDOW)     End If End Sub '------------------------------------------------------ 'shows the taskbar when accessible due to user level Public Sub ShowTaskBar()     If TaskBarhWnd <> 0 Then        Call SetWindowPos(TaskBarhWnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW)     End If End Sub

again, i hope this'll help you with your win2k



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Just thought i'd say that if this guy really wants to stop the "windows key" from working then autohiding the taskbar is absolutely useless , or it is in XP, becasue the start menu still comes up when you press the key on the the taskbar.

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I found an example of blocking ALT-TAB and other keys at www.vbguru.com and modified it to work with the Windows Keys... It works OK on my XP box

** Credit goes to Ovidiu Crisan - http://vbwork.4mg.com **

Download an example project with instructions (howto.txt) from My Example VB Project

[Edited by greyshirtguy on 21-04-2003 at 11:30 AM GMT]

Gee!! Thanks... It really worked!
Backgrounder: My friend plucked out his keyboards' windows keys in order to prevent his clients from activating the start menu.


...this only worked for NT. It does not work on Win95-98.

[Edited by mizmerize on 24-04-2003 at 06:52 AM GMT]

XP and win 2000 are both NT-based. I have just sent an email to another site because all of thier code samples were down and i should soon have the code to hide the taskbar.

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