Control Alt Delete

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed May 21, 2003 11:31 am

We just went live with PWB in our very busy library.

So far so good, except one or two wrinkles.

One wrinkle: when patrons find out they are "locked into" PWB, they do
the three finger salute. (control, alt delete). They then end PWB.
Since we're using PWB as a shell, they are delivered to a blank desktop.

Is there anyway to prevent this in Windows 98? Or to make something
interesting happen to PWB when patrons do this?

I've searched the archives and the website, but have found naught so far.

Many Thanks,

Jeff

Gerri · Post by **Gerri** » Wed May 21, 2003 2:55 pm

Jeff:

We had to deal with this issue as well. On Windows 98 machines, we used a freeware program called WinKeyKiller. It wasn't designed for this purpose, but works great in removing the CTRL ALT DEL option.

On Windows XP machines, we used gpedit.msc to get rid of most of the options.

-Gerri

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 21, 2003 3:42 pm

Using MMC Group Policies you can disable all the buttons on the Ctrl-Alt-Del dialog box, or pick and choose the ones you want disabled.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:27 am

Re MMC, our patron PCs are running Win98, so I don't think that's an option.

We tried winkey killer, works like a charm except that we're using pwb as a shell. From trial and error it looks like winkey doesn't get run from the Startup group when pwb becomes the shell.

Is there some kind of startup script option for the Win98 version of PWB? I looked on the pwb site, didn't see anything.

Thanks,

Jeff

spragers · Post by **spragers** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:35 pm

In the IN file, in the [Files] section, there is an entry for "StartupScript="

You should be able to launch the WinKeyKiller program from within a script. See www.devguru.com for all your scripting questions

Post by **Scott** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:35 pm

There is a start up script that will start anything you need to run at startup when using PWB as the shell. This is specified in the PWB INI Files section.

[Files]
...
StartupScript=
ShutdownScript=
...

You can also specify applications to run at logon in the Windows registry Run key.

--Scott

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 22, 2003 2:02 pm

Why I didn't see these options I know not. But thanks!!!! Jeff

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:25 am

This is just to say that we're doing great with winkeykiller, and winkey.bat,
both stored off the C: drive directly, with winkey.bat specified in the startup script line in the .ini files. (Winkey.bat is just an extremely simple batch file telling winkeykiller to run, and with "close program on exit" clicked on the icon to the batch file.)

PWB is working well, we're enjoying the IM blocking aspects of it, via
restricting downloads and blocking certain URLs.

Cheers,

Jeff