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Introduction

This program is a VERY simple one to demostrate how to disable the close button on a Windows Console App. When I was looking up how to do this, I failed to find anything to help me on the site save the forums.

In reality we simply need to call two separate functions GetSystemMenu() and DeleteMenu(). This same algorithm can be used to disable/enable ANY of the system menu buttons.

The entry point for YOUR code is in the else block after testing for MFC failure.

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John L. DeVito

I'm a programmer by hobby. I enjoy systems programming and algorithm analysis. I'm fluent in C and am now moving from linux to onjectesd oriented programming on the Windows platform, .NET as well as Native Windows programming. I hope to one day start my own micro-ISV.

Occupation:	Architect
Location:	United States

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