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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Chad Neeper [mailto:cneeper@level9networks.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> oplintech@lists.oplin.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] clever children...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Process Explorer is a very, very useful tool that has been around and in continual development for a long time. Microsoft acquired the company and the lead developer several years ago. It definitely worth keeping
in your arsenal.<br>
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I'm not familiar with the workings of pcreservation, but if the program that the patrons are killing is a Windows Service, you might be able to find the service and, in the Recovery tab, set the service to auto-restart after failure. That may or may not restart
the service in your particular case, where the user is terminating the service intentionally (not a failure, per se), but it would help if the service just spontaneously crashed on its own.<br>
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Also in the service's General tab, you may find the exact command used to launch the service. You might be able to schedule a task to restart the service upon event of it's termination. Windows 7 (if you're using it) has enhanced task scheduling capabilities.
You'd need to explore the execute on event trigger to see if you could trigger the task upon termination of your particular program/service.<br>
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Those thoughts are what popped into my head first.<br>
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HTH,<br>
Chad<br>
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On 2/22/2012 4:35 PM, R Young wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<pre>... have found a way to circumvent our pc reservation time limit system. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>they log on as usual, then launch a program called process explorer to kill <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>the pcreservation program. this allows them to stay on for an unlimited <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>amount of time.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>I just discovered this today, and the things I have tried have not been <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>foolproof in preventing them from launching the program. We allow people to <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>save to flash drives, and I don't want to restrict that. However, using <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Windows 2003 server, and setting restrictions on launching programs from <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>removable media doesn't prevent a user from launching process explorer from <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>a flash drive.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something I have overlooked. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>(Parenthetically, this program seems like it would be a handy tool for <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>techies looking for a quick way to close programs; much more elegant than <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>task manager--and free, to boot.)<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>thanks for any help <o:p></o:p></pre>
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