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> We just finished testing this out on Win7 and it works incredibly well,
> should work on Vista as well, but we are not really concerned with Vista
> because we will be going from XP to 7 and skipping Vista.
>
> If you want improved CTR+ALT+Del, try this out.

Tony, thanks pointing that out. In fact we had tested this DLL before but hit
some issues on Vista and Win7 with *restricted* users. We've not tried in the
last few weeks, but it's one of the (three) possibilities that we've on our
list for this problem. I will definetely add support for the DLL via a
compiler switch so that in any case you can use this method without having to
change sources all the time.

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tcaduto wrote:

>
> Hannes,
> What do you mean by a "restricted" user? We tested it on a standard
> corp laptop that logs on to the domain and as far as I know there are
> tons of restrictions placed on the users when they log into the domain.

Running the host as user as a user (not admin) was having issues.

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Am 17.08.2010 22:34, schrieb tcaduto:
> When you mean "restricted" do you mean a user who does not have admin
> rights? It works succesfully on the winlogon desktop with no users
> logged in,so wouldn't it work with any user?

I assume you talk about a custom gina DLL?
Because on this stage the application is running as "system".
After logon as user. And then you can't run some gina hooks.
Especially on vista.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

> > That works here, we tested it with several domain accounts that did not
> > have any admin rights and no problems. Did you guys use the
> > getactivesessionID to pass to the sendctrlaltdelete function?
> >
> > And it works consistenly on the winlogon desktop with no user at all
> > logged on.
> >
> > We could not believe how much faster the security screen shows using the
> > dll vs the cad.exe.

Ok, Thanks! We thought about this and what we're going to do is to abstract
the CAD stuff into its own class in very much the same way we abstracted the
Autorization Provider. We will then provide one or more implementations of
this feature and allow developers to easily use whichever they want or provide
their own.

This kind of abstraction is a pattern that you will see more and more in
Portal to make the code more modularized and easier to extend. We are for
example going to do this for the screen grabber; meaning that there will be an
abstract ScreenGrabber interfacing with Portal. We will intially provide the
default GDI Grabber and the Mirage Grabber implementations. This will make
implementation of other grabbers (e.g. using other video drivers or also a
hook based driver) much easier and avoids "code and problem contamination"
into other areas of Portal.

All this will not affect the high level interface on how Portal is used but it
will bring a lot more flexibility and better maintainability for both, us the
tool developer, and you developers who use it.

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