[WinAPI] Hook Ctrl + Alt + Delete on keyboard

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Hi all,

I'm using SetWindowHookEx with WH_KEYBOARD_LL to hook keys on keyboard. I try to hook Ctrl + Alt + Delete with:

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if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_CONTROL) && (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_MENU) && (p->vkCode == VK_DELETE))

But it doesn't work!

So, how to catch event Ctrl+Alt+Delete with Hook?

Thank you

Posted 17-Apr-12 17:55pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-04-17T18:11:00

To best of my knowledge, you cannot do it.

This is not possible, anyway, not on the user mode. This keyboard combination is treated in a special way by the OS. When you press Delete, and Ctrl and Alt are pressed, the keyboard event does not dispatched to any of the application programs at all. I think intercepting that could only be possible on the kernel level, if possible at all.

Such design feature of OS is quite explainable. For example, lust imaging that Ctrl+Alt+Delete can be caught by some application program which would hang or otherwise become defunct, effectively blocking access to Task Manager, switching user, etc. This would be too unsafe to allow to happen.

—SA