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Article #4644Re: Detect WinXP Login Screen
From: Thom A.
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:20
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:20
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> What EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish by detecting the WinLogin screen? I have written a standard Windows application - nothing exceptional. However, it seems to cause a problem that makes it difficult for very few WinXP users to log on again after the screen-saver had been activated, and a logon is required. I therefore want to detect when the WinXP Logon Screen becomes visible, and suspend the process that causes the problem until the user has logged himself into Windows again. The problem itself is very strange: Although my software does not make use of any functions that might move the mouse cursor, some part of my software seems to reset the mouse cursor to one and the same position about every second - but only as long as the Logon Screen is visible!!! That's really annoying, because some users have notebooks with touchpads, and therefore need more than a second to target and activate the password field! The result is, that they try to hit this field for minutes, until they finally succeed by pure fortune! Really, I'm at a loss trying to find this bug: There's not even a single line of code in the whole program that interferes with the mouse's movements... :-( Thomas
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