Manually calling the lockscreen in CE

As far as I know, the lockscreen in CE is provided by ceshell.dll. Has anyone ever tried manually calling it, from another program? Wondering if that would be possible since having a little shortcut for locking the device on my desktop would be awesome

I have no clue how to compile the code presented on the linked site, so I've been trying to call for that function in eVB:

 
Public Declare Function ShowStartupWindow Lib "coredll.dll" () As Long 

 

Private Sub Main() 

    Call ShowStartupWindow 

End Sub

The code compiles without error, but running it does exactly nothing. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

I managed to solve it in C sharp! It was very easy to just import ShowStartupWindow() from coredll.dll and to call that. It doesn't even need any arguments
Does anyone know where CE saves the current password in the registry? I'd like to read it and then upon boot write it back into the registry so that it survives a cold boot

Edited by I dunk for bananas 2023-03-19 4:03 PM

I saved the entirety of my registry before and after setting a password, and there are zero differences. Where could it possible be saving the password? o.o