New to AutoIt, lock mouse keyboard

[pimpaulogy]

  On 8/30/2010 at 7:30 PM, 'MPH said:

A real simple way to nip that in the bud is simply use Active Directory to set the profile so that they can't change it. To keep them out, you simply prevent the user from accessing the controls to change the desktop wallpaper.

Correct me if I am wrong, but couldn't a local admin override that group policy setting? If I am right, then I still have the problem because most users, even though my opinion is they shouldn't be, are local admins. If I am wrong, then I will have to see why we aren't using that. However, from time to time, the default preferred wallpaper is changed in order to promote something and is used for 10-30 days, and then switched back. I know that I can edit the wallpaper, and the new one will show up during the next reboot, but again, we would like it to happen immediately since most of our machines are always powered on and remain on until patches/updates are installed (once a month or so).

I have a working script/process for XP, just trying to get something working for Windows 7 since more and more of our devices are moving to that OS.

[Bert]

Read up on AD administration. https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx

[pimpaulogy]

  On 8/30/2010 at 10:40 PM, 'MPH said:

Read up on AD administration. https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx

Thanks?

Regardless of whether I need to learn more about administrating Active Directory or not, I still have an issue of making the change happen immediately which AD will not control.

And since I haven't seen the reply of "AutoIt will block user input on Windows 7 devices", I will assume it can't and will find other means of getting it done.

[BrewManNH]

  On 8/31/2010 at 4:55 PM, 'pimpaulogy said:

And since I haven't seen the reply of "AutoIt will block user input on Windows 7 devices", I will assume it can't and will find other means of getting it done.

On Windows Vista and 7 you will need to use #RequireAdmin in the script to get BlockInput to work, and if they're not an admin then your script won't run at all.

[Bert]

  On 8/31/2010 at 4:55 PM, 'pimpaulogy said:

Thanks?

Regardless of whether I need to learn more about administrating Active Directory or not, I still have an issue of making the change happen immediately which AD will not control.

And since I haven't seen the reply of "AutoIt will block user input on Windows 7 devices", I will assume it can't and will find other means of getting it done.

Active Directory WILL do this quickly. Not only that, it will set it so you never have to fix it again. I understand you urgency, but you need to think of how to deal with this correctly, not just throwing a bandaid at it. I know for a fact that it can do it for we have it setup this way in our environment.

[BrewManNH]

Unfortunately AD won't change the wallpaper regardless of the setting until the user logs out or reboots, there's no way for it to change it without that happening.

[pimpaulogy]

  On 8/31/2010 at 6:46 PM, 'BrewManNH said:

Unfortunately AD won't change the wallpaper regardless of the setting until the user logs out or reboots, there's no way for it to change it without that happening.

Thank you for acknowledging that AD won't make it happen immediately, just after a reboot or log out/in. I need it to happen immediately. I do have a script that will do this on Windows 7, but in order for me to be sure that it will complete, I need to prevent the end user from clicking around or typing. That's why I had hoped the BlockInput command would work, but again at this point, it fails to work for Windows 7. This is going to be a problem moving forward once I look to script software install/uninstalls that don't have CMD access and require GUI interaction.