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Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del? Thread last updated on 2003-07-12 16:19:48

Posted by member 44763 on 2003-07-09 03:57:18

Please help! I need to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del while using Litestep as shell in Win95 but still would be able to use the Hotkeys. Is this possible? Is there a module already written for this? Thanks for any ideas.

Posted by member 7 on 2003-07-09 04:11:11 link

I think you can do that with the group policies... gpedit.msc

Posted by member 111 on 2003-07-10 07:02:27 link

Group policies? in Win95? strrrrange world... :)
I hear about only one way to disable system hotkeys in Win9x - using some DirectX (!!!) functions... But I don't remember, does they work with Ctrl-Alt-Del or only with Alt+Tab/Alt+Esc, etc.
Am I wrong?

Posted by member 7 on 2003-07-10 08:37:12 link

Err... I must have been really tired or something, I read Win2k =)

Posted by member 910 on 2003-07-10 22:01:59 link

on some win95 boxes, aren't there options in BIOS to disable ctrl+alt+del?

Posted by member 45783 on 2003-07-11 01:29:05 link

I must again ask... What reasons are there to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del anyway?
Someone asked about disabling Alt-Tab, and that I can remotely understand because it may hamper games, but Ctrl-Alt-Del? What else can it do but save your ass on many ocassions?

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-07-11 07:07:25 link

I imagine LS would be good for a kiosk system. In that situation it would be handy to disable Ctrl+Alt+Del so people couldn't launch other programs or log the machine off.

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-07-11 09:29:38 link

DrWorm, the problem here though is the original poster is running win95. in win2k/xp, ctrl+alt+del can't be disabled, however, logging off, shutting down, accessing the task manager can all (I believe all, I'm not sure about the task manager, without looking) be disabled through group policies. in win95, I don't think there is a way. you can look through the win95 policies, but I can't even remember how to access them (and, they're pretty rudimentary), and I don't remember ever seeing anything about disabling ctrl+alt+del.

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-07-11 17:55:38 link

Well, clearly this isn't a feature of LS or win95. So I did a quick search on Google and found a couple of links you might find useful.

http://www.softstack.com/accmen.html
http://www.megasecurity.org/trojans/w/winrat/Winrat1.0.html
http://www.commodon.com/threat/threat-exec1.htm
http://www.developerfusion.com/show/152/

Posted by member 44763 on 2003-07-12 15:20:50 link

Sorry ilmcuts. I inserted the Win95 in my question before reading your answer. Your answer led me to poledit which did not disable Ctrl+Alt+Del. I'm having trouble with some of my more advanced students (probably more advanced than me) tinkering with Ctrl+Alt+Del and end up hanging the computer leaving the next user with a frozen computer. Thank you very much to everyone who posted.

Posted by member 7 on 2003-07-12 16:19:48 link

If you really want to lock down the computer so the users can only do what you want them to do there's no way around win2k/xp I think.