AutoHotkey Community

[Sam.]

In one of my classes at school, my teacher uses LJ Create Workstation. It has a program that is placed into the startup. It closes the taskbar and removes the desktop (no desktop shortcut icons). This is designed to keep the students from messing with anything on the computer except a specified set of programs that are launched with a specific launch code prompt. This works fine except you could use the window key to open the start menu and still do anything on the computer that you wanted. So, I made an AutoHotkey script (and added it to the startup) that disables the windows keys and prevents the task manager from starting (which was being used to close my script). The only problem is that it is extremely difficult for my teacher or I to access other parts of the computer for maintenance or whatever. So solve this, I have started working on another script that will close my script and exit the LJ scripts. I think that

[BoBo²]

Why not run those 'environments' using separate user profiles?

[Dra_Gon]

Sounds like there might be a program in the computer's StartUp folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
OR
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Or possibly directly in the Registry {I can't recall right off hand what the Autostart entry would look like in Registry}.

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[Sam.]

I actually added my script directly to the registry with regedit.exe. Currently I can exit out of it by opening regedit.exe in a round about, sneaky way and corrupt my entry and then log off and then log back on and hold down the shift key while it is loading (which prevents the LJ stuff from loading), but that is rather inconvenient. I was hoping to exit and reset everything with another script that only the teacher and I have (maybe even require a password to run...) and not have to log off and back on. I only want to temporarily reset these and have them come back the next time anyone logs on. Running the explorer kind of works but only if you can find the path of every file and program you need....

[Guest]

Just add a password hotkey to undo the changes and close the AHK program. then you can run it again when you're finished

[Lexikos]

[Dra_Gon]

Oh, I forgot to add some info above. Since your TaskManager is being asaulted, you could try a program called Current Processes. It's free at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cprocess.html .

I use this all the time since I'm always on public computers with no access to TaskManager. Come to think of it, I think I'll put this in the Utilities section too.

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Dra'Gon
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