windows shell

[Jasper Recto]

Does anybody know how I can do this. I need a workstation that is
completely secure and only shows Microsoft Access. I don't want the normal
desktop to show. All I want is a Microsoft access program menu to show.
This menu will be link to certain documents in Word, Excel and PDFs but the
desktop should always be Access. Any ideas how I might accomplish this?

Thanks!!!!
Jasper

 

[Consultant]

maximize the access window!

sorry, i couldnt resist

 

[dln]

What you could do is have a program that creates a new desktop, launches
your access program, and then switches to this desktop. That will give you
exactly what you want however once you're on the new desktop, the user will
have to <ctrl><alt><del> and choose "Log Off" in order to log off or shut
down the system. You might want to take a look at the Win32 window station
and desktop APIs (CreateDesktop, OpenDesktop, and SwitchDesktop to be
specific).

If you're looking for a program that will do all this for you I can't think
of any off the top of my head - you may need to write the software yourself.
There is a desktop manager that performs pretty much all of what I described
above at www.nadonsoftwaresolutions.com. It will create the new desktop
without the Windows shell and allows for the automatic launching of an
application, but the software does provide your user a mechanism to get back
to the default desktop.

HTH

 

[LastYJ]

Does anybody know how I can do this. I need a workstation that is
completely secure and only shows Microsoft Access. I don't want the normal
desktop to show. All I want is a Microsoft access program menu to show.
This menu will be link to certain documents in Word, Excel and PDFs but the
desktop should always be Access. Any ideas how I might accomplish this?

Thanks!!!!
Jasper

I did something similar some time ago that required locking down the desktop
and only allow one application to be run.

What I did was to replace the default Explorer shell by using something
called GeoShell. Other than CTRL-ALT-DEL, all other keystrokes can be
disabled. You can just add whatever programs you need to run into the
registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoshell/

-lyj