Application for a dedicated PC, uncloseable

[Zaid Pirwani]

Hi, So I am to design an application with some basic functionality and hardware interface (COMs etc), have decided to use C#. The System which the app run on will be WinXp, without Internet and it will be a dedicated system to run that app ONLY, nothing else has to be run on it, there will be keyboard/mouse to sue the app but the user is not expected to go elsewhere, not be able to close the app and app should start-up as XP starts, no explorer,task manager etc. It is for a dedicated POS terminal... can someone here please guide me a bit in the right direction, I am sort of lost as from where to start. I know I will need to put the app in startup to get it running when system starts and somehow keep explorer from starting, I can capture key sequences and/or disable Windows shortcuts altogether (don't know how), provide a control to shutdown PC from within the app. Note: the user is not the opponent, he is not deliberately trying to get out of the app, I hope. Does anyonehave experience with this type of requirement.

[Lost User]

Zaid Pirwani wrote:

Does anyonehave experience with this type of requirement.

Kiosk mode[^]

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] They hate us for our freedom![^]

[Zaid Pirwani]

KIOSK, so this was the magic word I was missing.... simply didn't came to mind. THANKS for the tutorial link. :)

[Lost User]

You're welcome :)

[jschell]

As noted in the other thread kiosk is the key word but do further research on it besides just the one tutorial. There are many clever ways to break a kiosk and you should insure that at least the common ones are not allowed.