🚀 go-pugleaf

JD wrote:
> "Mathias Thorell" <Mathias.Thorell@Kapsch.cl> wrote:
> 
>>[...] Simply, I just need to make the Laptop "unusable"
>>until it has been connected to the Office Server...
> 
> 
> You can't because the user could always boot in safe mode
> and alter the registry so that your application isn't loaded
> or even worse, remove your application all together.
> 
> True, this would require some advanced user techniques but
> once one person figured it out, every one would know how to
> do it in less than a day - maybe two.

You're completly right.

> IMO, by restricting use as you have proposed, the more likely
> someone will find a way to defeat it. I would suggest a nag
> screen that keeps popping up but still permits the user to do
> what he/she needs to do. The trick will be to nag as much as
> possible with out agravating someone into cracking it.

Rather good idea ! Since it actually solves another problem, what 
happens if the Laptop "becomes useless" (due to my process) while it is 
actually being used "on site" (the laptops are service equipment used by 
24/7 standby people in my company).

Really, I think this is the way to go, thanks JD !

/Mathias