Close or Kill applications after time-out
I'm an admin in a local hospital.
Our doctors use a custom-written program for their medical data. Some locations (eg operating room) are shared between several doctors.
Problem: doctors forget (read: are to lazy) to close their application, so anyone using the computer after them can snif in the medical data. According to the programmers it is not possible for them to embed code for that (pre-historical programming language..)
Wanted: a program or service that closes or simply kills applications after a certain time-out (maybe when the screen-saver pop in?) I need to close several programs, as the medical program opens Word to display letters they have written etc...
Our doctors use a custom-written program for their medical data. Some locations (eg operating room) are shared between several doctors.
Problem: doctors forget (read: are to lazy) to close their application, so anyone using the computer after them can snif in the medical data. According to the programmers it is not possible for them to embed code for that (pre-historical programming language..)
Wanted: a program or service that closes or simply kills applications after a certain time-out (maybe when the screen-saver pop in?) I need to close several programs, as the medical program opens Word to display letters they have written etc...
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we have a lab environment, instead of doctors, we have engineers.
we use a screensaver that kills applications and logs off the user. we force it with policy, and prevent it from being changed. it works pretty well.
winexit.scr is the screensaver file, and it was included in one of the resource kits for windows
here is a link that describes it, and how to set it up and it also has a link to the resource download that includes the file
..
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/winexit.htm
Tanelorn
we use a screensaver that kills applications and logs off the user. we force it with policy, and prevent it from being changed. it works pretty well.
winexit.scr is the screensaver file, and it was included in one of the resource kits for windows
here is a link that describes it, and how to set it up and it also has a link to the resource download that includes the file
..
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/winexit.htm
Tanelorn
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml
It kills any process / aplication when run, you could run it via a batch file.. and schedule it to run after a certain laps of time. There'S a solution on EE about killing a process after a period of time.. i'll look for it.