From: Ellen K. 

Thank you for the very fast reply!!!!!!!

My theory is that recent modifications to the application cause it to
freeze on the desktop and that is why we are suddenly seeing so many users
giving it the three-finger salute.  We sent out an email yesterday telling
them to contact the helpdesk rather than abnormally terminating, remains to
be seen how much cooperation we will get, however if we can get the
managers to enforce it we will be good.

The absolute ideal thing would be if instead of killing it it would pop a
message "PLEASE CONTACT HELPDESK".

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:52:39 -0500, Mike N. 
wrote in message :

>
>  Hopefully your application will still allow the user to close it gracefully
when the DB server is
>unavailable and restore CTRL-ALT-DEL, otherwise users being focused on their
work will
>kill the power switch or yank the cord from the wall to continue.
>
>Not sure which all OS' this works on, but XP definitely, and possibly all :
>
>enable the policy "Remove Task Manager," either in GPEDIT or
by setting the
registry entry.
>
>HKCU\
> Software\
>  Microsoft\
>   Windows\
>    CurrentVersion\
>     Policies\
>      System\DisableTaskMgr = dword:1
>
>
>
>For Less than NT (may have undesirable effects such as no task switching):
>
>    // Win 95/98/Me
>      unsigned dummy;
>      if (!::SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING, TRUE, &dummy, 0)
){
>        DWORD rc=GetLastError();
>       //  for failure
>      }
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:19:15 -0800, Ellen K.
 wrote:
>
>>We had a disaster at work, our legacy system has been down on and off
>>since Thursday.  We have identified that when a connection to the
>>Advantage Database Server (utility that lets us talk to DBF files as if
>>they were a real database) is abnormally terminated, the resources are
>>not released and after enough of these occur the Novell server abends.
>>
>>We would like to make it impossible for the users to Ctl-Alt-Del out of
>>the applications.  Is there a registry key or combination of registry
>>keys we can change to accomplish this?   We have both Win98 and W2K
>>machines using the applications in question, so if the answer is
>>different for the two OSes please include that information in your
>>reply.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Ellen

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