Preventing use of the "X" to close an fP application

[George Simon]

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I works from Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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On Behalf Of Richard Kreiss
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 11:46 PM
To: George Simon; Ian Wood
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: RE: Preventing use of the "X" to close an fP application

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I gather that you are not running this on Window7 as it no longer has the
console.

Richard Kreiss

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> On Behalf Of George Simon
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 5:11 PM
> To: Ian Wood
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: Preventing use of the "X" to close an fP application
> 
> I use a utility called ConsoleNoClose.exe supplied by Uwe Sieber - 
> www.uve- sieber.de
> 
> Description: Disables the X button and removes the close menu item of 
> all console windows when they become active.
> 
> Only way to exit filePro when this utility is in use is through the task
manager.
> 
> 
> George Simon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Wood [mailto:iwood51 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:45 PM
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Preventing use of the "X" to close an fP application
> 
> Windows 2008 Server
> filePro 5.07
> 
> We use a free utility called NoClose which disables the 'X'
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 9/3/2013 3:06 PM, Coleman, Don wrote:
> > > I seem to remember postings from a number of years ago, 
> > > modifications that could be made within Windows, to prevent a user 
> > > from exiting an fP application (Windows) via clicking the "X" in 
> > > the upper right corner of the application window.  I believe there 
> > > was some modification which caused the "X" to not be displayed.  
> > > Anyone
> remember same?
> >
> > There is no official way of disabling the "X" in a console window 
> > that I an aware of.  However, filePro does handle the notification 
> > that Windows sends to console apps, and treats it similarly to the 
> > *nix Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) signal, and exits cleanly.
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
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