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Detecting Window's StartUp

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caydes

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Hi all,<br>
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Is it possible to write a C function to detect a Window's Startup (or even an application startup, like Microsoft Word) and another to stop it from starting up?<br>
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If so, how to do it?<br>
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Thanx.
 
You could arrange for your program to be in the StartUp group. You would know when someone logged in then.<br>
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Alternatively - you could install your program as a Windows Service marked for automatic startup. This is probably the cleaner way to do this as your ordinary user won't be able to remove it.<br>
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Mike <p>Mike Lacey<br><a href=mailto:Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com>Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>
 
Thanx mike. The other method I would like to use is to use interrupts. Through interrupts you can trap the pid's of the program running. Then you can check in the ID table for that . If it is running you can get the message as TRUE . <br>Does that answer your question ?<br>Thanx<br>Siddhartha Singh<br><A HREF="mailto:ssingh@aztecsoft.com">ssingh@aztecsoft.com</A>
 
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