Re: Launch "Windows Security" windows from Process.Start

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From: Dean Slindee (slindee_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:40:57 -0500

My intent is to give the user a menu item to lock the workstation. Thanks
for the pointer to the LockWorkStation API. I will consult the Knowledge
base articles. Perhaps there is something I can then do in VB.NET.

Thanks,
Dean Slindee
""Peter Huang"" <v-phuang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Dean,
>
> First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue.
> From your description, I understand that you wants to show the same dialog
> with when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del.
> Have I fully understood you? If there is anything I misunderstood, please
> feel free to let me know.
>
> Based on my experience I think it is not easy to do this, because we may
> need to write a customized GINA Dll to achieve our aim.
>
> For more information, see the Platform SDK documentation for Winlogon and
> GINA at
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/winlogon_and_gina.
> asp.
>
> Can you tell us what do you wants to do about the windows security dialog,
> if you wants to lock the workstation, we have API LockWorkStation, and We
> can use ExitWindowsEx windows API to shutdown, restart or logoff.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Huang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>

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