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Jeff

I know Win2k inside-out, but WinXP I'm lacking. I'm
implementing stand alone XP Home PCs to customers with our
proprietary program set-up on them. The #1 complaint is
that they accidentally close to program (needs to run
24x7). The users need to access the programs, but I need
to disallow them to close the app. Can this be done/how?

thankyou
Jeff
 
If you app needs to run 24/7 then it should be running as a service.

It seems a simple programmer fix to implement that behaviour. capture
WM_CLOSE etc in your app and do whatever.

I am puzzled how does it work in windows 2000 differently!
 
Windows 200 allows me to set a local policy to disallow
right-clicking.
Any ideas as to how this can be accomplished?
 
Policy tools are not part of, and do not run in, Home
edition. You can effect most policy based registry
setting by direct registry manipulations.
However, contrary to an earlier post, as this app does
apparently have an interactive window, I would say
that this should not run as a service.
Also, I would not buy or run and app that made me
disable any feature of my preferred user interface,
especially right click menuing.
What you should do is make a minor redesign to your
application, so that on launch a small wrapper fires up,
and this spawns off your existing app and sleeps on a
close event from its child, upon receipt of which it
cycles the spawn and sleep on close.
 
"needs to run 24x7" does sound like a service to me. The unstated "needs to
interact with the desktop" does not. Why not run it as a service then have
a front-end app that users can run in their context; something that RPCs
(whichever variant) back and forth with the service.

If we knew more about the app we might be able to offer better feedback.
 
Jeff said:
Windows 200 allows me to set a local policy to disallow
right-clicking.
Any ideas as to how this can be accomplished?
Click to expand...

Disabling right click altogether is a sledgehammer solution to crack a nut.
If you disable ability to right-click, then a lot of useful functionality in
windows is lost. Would your users be running you app only?

You said your users "accidently" close the app... Right clicking on a
systray icon and choosing Close/Exit seems more intentional than accidental
to me.

However the same policy should apply to windows XP that you used in windows
2000. I'm not sure which policy that would be though. Need more details.
 
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