Ed,

Thanks a million. I needed something like this badly, because the users are deleting files and changing drivers from the main Win Explorer, so I needed more security. I'll try this out tomorrow (morning). If it's stable, I sticj with it for some time, while I check out the ZAK thoroughly.



>VFP can call a Win32 API function to shut down Windows (under NT, there is an assumption that the user has the necessary permissions to do so.) The call I use when I want the system to restart Windows from scratch is:
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>DECLARE SHORT ExitWindowsEx IN Win32API ;
> INTEGER nShutDownMode, ;
> INTEGER nReserved
>#DEFINE LoginNewUserFlagValue  0  && Fires login new user dialog
>#DEFINE ShutdownFlagValue  1      && Shutdown, no restart
>#DEFINE RestartFlagValue  2       && Restart Windows, if needed, do a cold boot
>CLOSE ALL
>FLUSH
>=ExitWindowsEx(RestartFlagValue,0)
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>Because of issues involving shelling and OLE, I would not try to have a VFP application replace the default shell;  ZAK, while complex, doesn't interfere with shell-related extensions to the operating system, and can make as much of Win95's base functionality available to the system;  you provide no mechanism for maintenance of the system if you load the VFP app as the shell.
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>>TIA