Windows xp disable control alt delete logon

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We're a community of IT professionals committed to sharing knowledge. Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed. Plans and Pricing. Contact Us. Certified Expert Program. It is very much possible, for example here's how to enable it in case a virus has disabled it:. How to make this disable it and how to do it from code I'll let you figure out hint: you'll probably want to edit some registry keys as this question is pretty fishy.

You can read about the registry API here. Those are not easy to code; if you want API hooking then I suggest this library - you might be able to do this with classic windows hooks however. You'll need to write your own msgina. If you don't absolutely have to cut off any response to this command and you probably don't , then you can most likely get away with simpler methods. The easiest way accomplish your goal would be to write a keyboard filter driver, which discards all input. This is really the only correct way of disabling all input I can think of, and is the method used by products such as LogMeIn.

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Badr Badr 9, 15 15 gold badges 69 69 silver badges bronze badges. No it isn't. Why would you want to do it anyway? You should clarify what exactly you mean by disable and why you want to do this. You can edit the registry to disallow task manager. I have edited my post with links to things you might find useful. When you administer a public computer, you definitely wish you could do this. And a more specific subset: student computers, especially during class and while running a exam program.

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Indy Indy 8, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Finally someone else who isn't saying this is impossible! Ya, it's definitely possible. You haven't disabled Control-Alt-Delete, you've only disabled the task manager.

You can still do things like shutdown the system using that sequence. Billy ONeal: You should read the post completly before commenting I have listed 3 ways to do it, not just diabling task manager[which does disable SAS] , and also read the link provided for further information.

Mind you this is for WinXP only. I've read the whole post, and Billy is still correct. The only solution here that actually disables the secure attention sequence is number 2.

Learn more. Disable the control alt delete prompt to logon to Windows Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 8 months ago. Active 12 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Improve this question. Omar Shahine. Omar Shahine Omar Shahine 3, 3 3 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Grant Grant 4 4 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. When I try that I get an error that Windows cannot find netplqiz — Brent. It doesn't work on my XP machine.