- Display a window on winlogon desktop (XP)
- Posted by abb on April 11th, 2008
How can you display a splash window on the winlogon desktop? FYI,
this will be displayed from a process started in the appropriate
winlogon desktop/session and running as SYSTEM.
If the workstation is locked (eg. switching users), setting the parent
to the window with the title "Windows Logon" works. But this fails if
all users are logged off.
A message box with the service notification flag also works, so it's
definitely possible. What is that doing?
- Posted by Sebastian G. on April 11th, 2008
abb wrote:
Simply don't do it!
- Posted by abb on April 12th, 2008
That would be nice, but I'm developing an app that needs to display a
notification to the user before login.
- Posted by Sebastian G. on April 12th, 2008
abb wrote:
Argh! Once again: Please carefully reconsider if this is really absolutely
necessary. It's almost certainly not. Actually you should consider any such
necessity as a serious bug.
- Posted by Sten Westerback \(MVP SDK 2005-6 :\) on April 16th, 2008
"Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in message
news:66bk8uF2ia42uU1@mid.dfncis.de...
I have the same opinion. But it seems like what OP might be wanting is a
Screensaver or, maybe, a GINA extension.
- Sten
- Posted by Sebastian G. on April 16th, 2008
Sten Westerback (MVP SDK 2005-6 
wrote:
I thought he was talking about a system service, which is definitely a
different beast.
