DOS window doesn't appear

[Kenneth Albanowski]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:

> 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.)

My recollection is that there _is_ a way to trap Ctrl-Alt-Del, involving
the screen saver hooks, if I remember right.

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds "at" kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)



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