keyboard lockout

Hi all,

Is it possible to lockout the keyboard and mouse while a script is running?

tia,
Mike

Michael Herz wrote:

> Is it possible to lockout the keyboard and mouse while a script is running?[/color
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Hi

You can do this with AutoIt/AutoItX...

AutoIt/AutoItX is free and can be found here:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.php

AutoItX is an ActiveX control version of AutoIt and can be used from
a vbscript.


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Thanks for the response. I have and use WinBatch usually. I was hoping for a
native wsh method. It's kinda crazy to have a sendkeys method without a
keyboard lockout method (but maybe that's just my bent ;-)

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
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> Michael Herz wrote:
> 
running?
> Hi
>
> You can do this with AutoIt/AutoItX...
>
> AutoIt/AutoItX is free and can be found here:
> http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.php
>
> AutoItX is an ActiveX control version of AutoIt and can be used from
> a vbscript.
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co...er/default.mspx

Michael Herz wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I have and use WinBatch usually. I was hoping for
 a
> native wsh method.
Hi

Sorry, a native wsh method for this does not exist...


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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co...er/default.mspx

A buddy of mine wrote an exe that disabled the keyboard and mouse a while
back as we had the same need.  Rather than trying to find it I will inform
you that when the keyboard and mouse are disabled, sendkeys do not
function...

Richard


"Michael Herz" <mherz@uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the response. I have and use WinBatch usually. I was hoping for
a
> native wsh method. It's kinda crazy to have a sendkeys method without a
> keyboard lockout method (but maybe that's just my bent ;-)
>
> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
> news:%23f9DOm$QEHA.3124@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... 
> running? 
>
>

Thanks for the reply. I think I decided that the few problems I had with
WinBatch weren't so bad afterall ;-)

"Richard" <NoSpam@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
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> A buddy of mine wrote an exe that disabled the keyboard and mouse a while
> back as we had the same need.  Rather than trying to find it I will inform
> you that when the keyboard and mouse are disabled, sendkeys do not
> function...

There's an API method, BlockInput, which does just this.
It doesn't block ctrl+alt+del, though (probably a good idea).

Troels

I'll have to look that one up :-)

Thanks

"Troels Jakobsen" <dont@like.spam> wrote in message
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> "Richard" <NoSpam@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
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while 
inform 
>
> There's an API method, BlockInput, which does just this.
> It doesn't block ctrl+alt+del, though (probably a good idea).
>
> Troels
>
>