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Post by The Jackal on Mar 10, 2023 15:28:47 GMT -8
 I'm looking for an exact replacement for this dialog from Windows 2000/XP. You know, the one you'd get when you press CTRL+ALT+DEL. Does anyone know if there is a third-party clone of it somewhere? Or at least something similar? Thank you. |
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 24, 2023 14:10:53 GMT -8
OMG, I found one! It looks customizable as well, the bitmap afaik can be changed, but alas, there's a snag - it's trialware, the devs disappeared in 2012 so I have no way to activate it! :C
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 24, 2023 15:57:08 GMT -8
I managed to activate it and I modified it slightly. It's fully working beyond the task manager button being permanently greyed out. EDIT: Managed to edit the dialog. Had to use a hex editor but it's done. I'm off to bed now.  Some notes: Name is in lower case e.g. "User" displays as "user". Log on date lists the current time. Task Manager is greyed out - Coralsoft had their own task manager, so I'm not sure if it's not detecting it on my system or they never implemented you being able to use that button in the dialog - I will have to check it out tomorrow. |
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Post by ecp on Mar 24, 2023 23:50:31 GMT -8
This is great. Is it using the desktop color from current theme as background or is it hardcoded?
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 25, 2023 2:14:46 GMT -8
This is great. Is it using the desktop color from current theme as background or is it hardcoded? It's hardcoded, but it *might* be possible to change it via hacking, no idea. EDIT: I also got the Task Manager button working - had to reinstall both of CoralSoft's programs (this security lock clone and their task man). And then I swapped out the their task manager for the one from WXP. This thing is a near pefect clone; has it's own log off prompt and even shutdown prompt. Only thing is shutting down bugs out, and returns you to the desktop. Logging out works. |
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Post by craft on Mar 25, 2023 2:27:33 GMT -8
To make task manager not grayed out create a folder in program files called coralsoftware and then in that folder create a folder named task manager and then drop your task manager executeable here and rename it to TaskMngr.exe
Another thing is that is there a way to disable the password box on startup?
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 25, 2023 2:48:26 GMT -8
Another thing is that is there a way to disable the password box on startup? No, sadly, most likely needs to be dummied out - that's beyond my limited abilities. |
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Post by ecp on Mar 25, 2023 3:23:29 GMT -8
Can you share a link to the program? I couldn't find anything except taskmanager program. Downloads section in archived coralsoft site is broken. Thanks.
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 25, 2023 3:40:28 GMT -8
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Post by ecp on Mar 25, 2023 7:01:51 GMT -8
Thank you. Background color is at offset CDFD.
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 25, 2023 8:44:28 GMT -8
Thank you. Background color is at offset CDFD.
Ah, really nice! Time to change it to teal like I wanted. Thank you.  |
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 26, 2023 16:20:11 GMT -8
I've done some experimenting in a W2K VM - this thing is positioned too low down compared to where it's real counterpart is on the screen. It's a few inches lower than it should. How tf would you even search to find the screen cords in a hex editor??
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Post by ecp on Mar 27, 2023 10:50:05 GMT -8
I found a program called VBReFormer. You can change the form properties to your liking and save changes directly to the executable.  |
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 27, 2023 12:33:00 GMT -8
I found a program called VBReFormer. You can change the form properties to your liking and save changes directly to the executable. I messed around with and tried to save to the binary, but I'm told it's a paid feature. It's lags my system as well. Are you using an older version? |
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Post by ecp on Mar 27, 2023 12:46:26 GMT -8
Yes, I used an older version (6.4). I didn't encounter any lags but it crashed a few times while editing the window.
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 27, 2023 14:01:36 GMT -8
Yes, I used an older version (6.4). I didn't encounter any lags but it crashed a few times while editing the window. Yeah, I'm using the same version. Also I'm an idiot - I just remembered this is a decompiler, I can save it as a project and rebuild it as an executable with Visual Basic 6. Thank you for finding this in the first place. |
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 27, 2023 14:22:24 GMT -8
Yeah, nope, doing that breaks the project.
EDIT: If it wasn't clearer, I have no clue what I am doing.
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Post by ecp on Mar 27, 2023 15:27:37 GMT -8
I found the hex values. First one is startup position second one is movable true/false state. I tried to directly edit position too but couldn't get it working.
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Post by ecp on Mar 28, 2023 3:02:08 GMT -8
This is really great. Thank you very much. Only issue i found so far is that when i click the task manager it opens up but in the background. Only feature i could ask for is adding the banner bitmap as bmp resource so it can be easily modified.
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