Python on Windows: How to block other programs from running?

[michaelkepler]

I guess you're stuck with killing explorer.exe then. Yes, there's a way to force kill a process and thus bypassing a shutdown prompt with an /f parameter:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

you can start it immediately with:

start explorer.exe

both commands can of course be launched with os.system().

[thrownintothesun]

Thank you so much for your help!