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[FreezingFire]

Hi,

Can someone explain the differences between AbortSystemShutdown
and shutdown.exe -a?

I think they might do the same thing but the API didn't work for me
when I tried it, I don't think, unless I was doing something wrong.

Thanks for any pointers.

[Serge]

not sure if you already know this or not...shutdown.exe is a xp program that users can use to automate a shutdown...i found lots of information on that little utility by doing a search with google using shutdown.exe as the search term

don't know anything about the api call

serge

[FreezingFire]

Yup I'm using Win XP Professional. Here's the documentation about
using the -a parameter:

[CodeScript]

For an app to shutdown the system or stop it the calling process must have the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege else the command fails. This is for security reasons and is very strict on NT based systems.
So you should get the current privileges of your VDS app and if it does not have proper privilge you should give it by using AdjustTokenPrivileges
API. The path is *quite complex* and involves defining an array within a structure. Somehow I lost interest in that one reason being time constraints.
You can have a look for details:
http://developer.vdsworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=109
FF
I will look up for a working VB code on my HDD if you know VB
Regards

[FreezingFire]

Thanks CodeScript for your response. I don't need any code, just
was wondering what the difference was.

[vdsalchemist]

FF,
There is no difference between the -a switch and AbortSystemShutdown the utility uses the same API. I have built a DLL for this but I never released it because I wanted a better way to perform the Remote shutdown. I have found shell script that can do this just I have not had time to translate it to a DLL for us to use...