Hi, I am a newbie in VC++. I wish to create a password protected screen saver which is highly security as compared to any windows password protected screen saver.That means that any user cannot hack into the system until he key in the password.Is there any website or experts who can direct me to some information on these? Hereby, thanks a lot.

What''s wrong with the "password protected" checkbox? I wasn''t aware of any security holes in it...

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yes, i know i want to create a password protected screen saver? if it is a normal screen saver created with VC++, then what''s the use of creating a screen saver when the user can just press clt-alt-del on the keyboard and will stop the program?i just want to make the screen saver more secure.Can it be done? thanks

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yes, i know i want to create a password protected screen saver? if it is a normal screen saver created with VC++, then what''s the use of creating a screen saver when the user can just press clt-alt-del on the keyboard and will stop the program?i just want to make the screen saver more secure.Can it be done? thanks

They can''t do anything of the sort.

char a[99999],*p=a;int main(int c,char**V){char*v=c>0?1[V]:(char*)V;if(c>=0)for(;*v&&93!=*v;){62==*v&&++p||60==*v&&--p||43==*v&&++*p||45==*v&&--*p||44==*v&&(*p=getchar())||46==*v&&putchar(*p)||91==*v&&(*p&&main(0,(char**)(--v+2))||(v=(char*)main(-1,(char**)++v)-1));++v;}else for(c=1;c;c+=(91==*v)-(93==*v),++v);return(int)v;}  /*** drpizza@battleaxe.net ***/

We can''t figure out what you are wanting to do. If you want some help, I suggest you go into more detail with your please .

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Windows handles screensavers differently than normal programs in that it doesn''t allow Ctrl-Alt-Del workaround.

For some reason my MSDN CD keeps trying to convince me that Visual Basic is the only thing that will write Screen Savers...

I think it is only a .exe changed to a .scr, with a few different handling things. The C++ example I have found I cannot be bothered finding on the CD... If you are trying to write this screensaver without Visual C++, good luck (I doubt you can do it). If you do have Visual C++, search the MSDN library.. there is stuff there...

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