🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks Max, I was beginning tho think that might be the way to start (Run
app from Registry)
How does a console app get shut down? Does it need to set up a message queue
to get shutdown messages from windows? I've not done this kind of (always
running) app before :(
I will probably keep the Service based app for later on when I feel braver!
Rgds Pete

"Max Topley" <mtj2@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:58:46 +0100, Pete Fraser wrote:

>I'm trying to write a service that monitors which user is logged on and
what
>apps they are running. Does anyone know if:
>a) This is possible and

More or less, yes. With lots of "ifs" and "buts"..........

>b) Any pointers as to how to do it

Nasty. Don't forget that there may, at least in theory, be several
"users" logged in at any one time, each with their own console and
desktop(s). Security features may well get in the way, as well.

You'd really need to start poking around in Windows internals and data
structures to do the job properly. If you're really keen, you might
like to have a look here as a start:
http://www.sysinternals.com/

>I've got the basic service going but can't find out how to find out the
>current user and their tasks.
>I have written loops using GetTopWindow and GetNextWindow before but need
to
>know how to use these within a service.
>
>Or is it better to write an app that gets started at login time?
>
>What I want is something that can't be shut down by any old user (It's an
>app to stop kids spending too much time on Messenger etc and thus not doing
>homework and I don't want them to be able to shut it down themselves!)

I think I'd just write something that starts at user login. If you
write it as a console app, and start it from the "Run" key in the
registry, then it won't show as an app, but it will show in the
process list (but you could deny their account access to the task
manager anyway).

-- 
  Max