DavidStark Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Hey guys, I'm new to these forums as a poster but have found a lot of help here before. I have two issues for you. I am building a small program for a friend that only allows her kids to have a certain amount of time on the computer before it locks them out, she then has to type in a password and it unlocks the computer, she can grant them more time or exit the program or whatever. So you understand how the lock works, all it does is throw up a GUI that is the exact size of the screen, it runs through a loop that continuously makes sure that the GUI is on top and active and waits for a password. I have the whole program written and working great but i realized one problem, if the kids know how to access task manager then they can just close desktoplock.exe and they won't get locked out! So I searched the forums for a way to make it hard to close an EXE that's running, but people were accusing other of writing viruses and such so i figured i'd make my own new topic. So the question is: Is there an easy way to make it so either they can't see it in task manager, or they need some kind of permission to run task manager, or they need permission to close it, something so the kids can't close the EXE before it locks them out. Can you guys think of any solutions? Second, the aforementioned desktop lock program has pictures as backgrounds in all of the UI windows. I would really like to be able to compile these pictures into the EXE, that way I can just paste the EXE in her computer and be done with it, instead of making sure the pictures are in the right directory and all that crap. It would just be really nice if there was an easy way to compile the EXE with pictures included. I realize that there is probably some desktop lock or child lock applications out there, but I am trying to learn how to create more complex GUI's and was talking to this friend and decided to take on a little project to help me learn. Thanks for the help. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted December 5, 2012 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2012 DavidStark,Question 1: Yes, hiding exes from Task Manager can be done, but we are not prepared to have it openly discussed on the forum. Question 2: Look at FileInstall or Zedna's Resource UDF. M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidStark Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 Question 1: Yes, hiding exes from Task Manager can be done, but we are not prepared to have it openly discussed on the forum. Mmmk, can you think of a different simple way to keep them from accessing it? Like is there anything in windows that puts restrictions on task manager? Question 2: Look at FileInstall or Zedna's Resource UDF. Awesome! I'm going to check that out. Thanks! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidStark Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 Melba, Turns out there is a registry key that disables task manager, i think that i may just use this as it will be an easy work around. Her kids are not that old yet so hopefully they don't know other tricks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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