Hello All,

First: What I am trying to do.

Write a program that when run will disable the booting on a Win32 NT, 2K, XP system.

Second: The reason to write this program.

We have had instances where employees who have company laptops have had to be "un-hired" while not at our office. In the last instance the "former" employee deleted quite a bit of data from their system, before returning it to us. I was able to recover most of the data with some undelete utils and FTK.

I would like to avoid all of the problems involved with reconstructing deleted data, by simply being able to send a "patch" file to the employee and having their system disabled.

Personally, this is not a program I am wild about writing, but I have found it interesting so far. I have some stubbed out Perl code, which validates the OS and reboots the system, now just looking for the least distructive way to disable booting.

Thanks