How to lock down the Find function?

[Chuck Bearden]

What I did to disable F3-Find was to create a shortcut on the desktop 
that took F3 as its hotkey, and pointed that shortcut to a batch file 
that contains just an "@" symbol.  I also make a change to the registry 
preventing execution of real mode programs, so that hitting F3 brings up 
the notification that the action is illegal (or something like that).  

Our desktops are hidden by registry changes and obscured anyway by our 
vendor's menuing system (CARL's Everybody's Menu Builder/Catalog).  

This trick also works with Shift-F10, which gets you the context menus 
when you have highlighted an object in Explorer or the Win95 Open/Save 
dialog boxes.  

Hope this helps.

Chuck
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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 lbspodic at uxmail.ust.hk wrote:

> I tried asking this on the W95 Lab Managers list, but got no response.
> I am hoping that someone here might have the answer.
> 
> 
> We have recently been converting a number of public-access PCs to
> Windows95.  The project is working well, and we have used the registry
> editor to disable various functions and menu options which we don't want
> available.
> 
> However, we have found that when users click on the desktop or taskbar,
> outside the running program, they can then press <F3> and call up the
> 'Find' dialog box, even though Find has been disabled from the Start Menu.
> 
> Does anyone know what we need to do to modify the registry to disable
> this feature?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Edward Spodick, Systems Librarian
> 
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> Edward F Spodick, Systems Librarian - lbspodic at usthk.ust.hk or @uxmail.ust.hk
> Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library
> tel:  852-2358-6743    fax:  852-2358-1043
> 
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