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[bugmenot]

Hey there. I have done little tasks with autohotkey and cannont begin to say how much I love it but I have a new task at hand that I need help with....

I am an administrator for a school and we have a small problem with kids not getting there work done. To I a certain extend this is alright but it is developing out of control. My original Idea was to open Dxdiag and disabling it with mouse click whilst blocking mouse and keyboard movement however I realized that would be quite a annoying thing. I would like to also incorporate
it so that at certain periods of the day perhaps lunch it will reenable. What would be the best way? Could you hook on to the Dlls? I am reading like crazy and having problems. One Idea I picked up in the last 20 minutes or so was that there is something that detects pixel color could I perhap Use that to initiate the killing of a dll like as it changed resolution and blacks out it would query for the time and if it is a blocked time it would than trigger something to stop the dll or something?

I appreciate any help you guys can provide Thanks a bunch.

[Z Gecko]

So do i get you right,
the kids are playing games, when they should work?

If so, i would suggest to disable the games, instead of messing around with the dll´s and your setup.
You could e.g. move the game-exe-files to a different folder and crypt it.

But i suggest, to take a different approach: On public-computers, i would restrict the usage only to programs i specially allow. The build-in windows tool poledit.exe is especially made for things like this. Take a look:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910203
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168579/EN-US/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318753/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/147381/en-us
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/449/05/1.html

[Guest]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Direct3D

Set DisableDP2 to "1" to disable Direct3D

[n-l-i-d]

And if they are playing games online: simple, but crude is to add the unwanted domains to the HOSTS file.