DOS window doesn't appear

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Carroll, Patrick S wrote:

> The way PCAnywhere handles CTRL+ALT+DEL seems to be nice and could also
> apply for the CTRL+ESC keystroke as well as others.  VNC could be set to
> intercept these keystrokes, if the VNCviewer window is the foreground
> window, and pop-up a dialog asking the user if the keystroke was destined
> for the local or the remote computer.

Ctrl-Alt-Del cannot be intercepted under Windows NT without replacing the
standard authentication library (GINA.DLL), because Ctrl-Alt-Del is a
secure key sequence or something (i.e. there needs to be a guarantee that
it will always work and nothing can stop it working by intercepting it.)

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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