Disable.......

I dont care which one you answer. Please give me VB code. Any help is
appreciated.
#1.How do I disable/hide the start menu?
#2.How would I hide all icons on the desktop?
#3.How would I disable the right right click of the mouse?

I don't know exactly how to hide the taskbar, but the MSDN Knowledge Base article that is at the address below has some good information. You will probably be able to hide the taskbar by Deregistering it, but be sure that your code re-registers the bar when you are finished.

http://support.microsoft.com/support...NG=ENG&SA=MSDN

Good Luck...

And try this article for the right mouse button
(It may be pretty close to what you need)

http://support.microsoft.com/support...G=ENG&SA=ALLKB

You can accomplish #1 and #2 with this http://codeguru.developer.com/vb/articles/1752.shtml

Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb

Why don't you just shutdown the computer to remove everything? LOL
here is the way to hide taskbar:
declare this

private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (byval lpClassName as string, byval lpWindowName as string) as Long
private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (byval hwnd as Long, byval nCmdShow as Long) as Long


and this is to remove the bar

Handle = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
ShowWindow Handle, 0


change last 0 to 1 to show taskbar

to disable the icons just make your form size of desktop and remove all the titlebar buttons, all the controls and make it stay at the top of the screen like me.top = 0, me.left = 0
that's really simple and ugly version of removing icons......but I don't know any other way

You can hide all the desktop icons using the code I wrote at the link I provided (http://codeguru.developer.com/vb/articles/1752.shtml)

Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb

Thanks Chris...I tried to do something with desktop long time ago, but after I found "progman" (with spy++), I kind of got a bit confused with that, plus all this expiriments could give bad end that you'll have to restart your computer manually, so I decided not to continue. Thanks for the code.