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Inside Startup Cop Continued from Startup Cop and Windows 98 Startup Cop uses the same technique as Windows 98 to disable items, and extends it to permit the deletion of items. In this section I will describe the techniques used, and how Startup Cop ensures that the user has restarted Windows before allowing deletion. Startup Cop needs the ability to manage shortcuts; it reads shortcuts that define start-up items, and writes shortcuts that load profiles. The pair of all-purpose functions I devised to read and write shortcuts is also of interest. Startup Cop's detail window looks like a standard help-context pop-up, but it's not. The help system's text is hard-coded, and Startup Cop needs to display system-specific information in the detail window. I will describe how I simulated a help-context pop-up as closely as possible, right down to the drop-shadow. Next: Disabling and
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