Want to hide the windows start menu

[dinesh_IP]

Hi Friends, We are developing an application which will start when the computer starts and the system will shutdown when the application is closed. I want to hide the windows 'start' menu so that user can not access any other soft wares from the system apart from our application. Can any one pls suggest any function and how to hide the start menu on the start up Thanks in Advance, Dinesh

[toxcct]

switch to another desktop...

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[Hamid Taebi]

It seems you need to FindWindowEx(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL)->m_hWnd, 0, "Button", NULL)->ShowWindow(0); FindWindowEx(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL)->m_hWnd, 0, "Button", NULL)->ShowWindow(1); /* CWnd *pwnd; pwnd=FindWindowEx(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL)->m_hWnd,0, "Button", NULL); pwnd->ShowWindow(0); pwnd->ShowWindow(1); */

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WhiteSky

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[toxcct]

do you think seriously (even if it does work for hiding the start button) that it will prevent, as the OP wants, to users to launch applications ? the windows+R keyboard combination allow the user to reach the "Run..." dialog, Windows+E keys, to launch the explorer... i don't think this "security reason" should be solved like this...

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[Michael Dunn]

You're thinking about writing a replacement shell, which will be run instead of Explorer at login time. Check out LiteStep[^] for an example of a shell replacement.

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[ThatsAlok]

WhiteSky wrote:

FindWindowEx(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL)->m_hWnd, 0, "Button", NULL)->ShowWindow(0); FindWindowEx(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL)->m_hWnd, 0, "Button", NULL)->ShowWindow(1);

your Window will hung after some time !

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[Hamid Taebi]

It has a mistake/**/ and FindWindowEx(..... was a code and you can use from CWnd.Did you get my mail!?

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