About Automatic Shutdown

[erol]

I happened to read one of your discussions about the Automatic Shutdown for Win9x(with ljw) and I tried it with my own PC and it worked out great. I even tried it on the task scheduler and set it to execute on a specific time and it was great especially for people like me who would always download big files and leave my Windows running at night.

I am very familiar with the
C:\Windows\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows
command, but these two below seems to confuse me...

rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 5
and
rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 13

could you enlighten me bout the difference of these two from the usual

C:\Windows\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

command.... and what's the difference between the 5 and the 13?

I'm kinda new to this... please help thanks!

could you please, please send your reply to this addres... thanks again guys!

/erol

 

[Cougar01]

Copy this rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 5 to the clipboard and paste it into google.com....I got many hits.

email Cougar_01@hotmail.com

 

[reghakr]

erol,

The values can be added together:

Via the SHExitWindowsEx
Using the User.exe & User32.dll Exit Windows functions doesn't allow any control over what type of shutdown is preformed as parameters aren't passed, they operate as if 0 is passed - which is shutdown for ExitWindows and Logoff for ExitWindowsEx. An undocumented function SHExitWindowsEx in Shell32.dll which is what Explorer seems to use does take parameters.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx [optional number in hex]
Action Value in Hex
EWX_LOGOFF 0
EWX_SHUTDOWN 1
EWX_REBOOT 2
EWX_FORCE 4
EWX_POWEROFF
for machines that turn off their own power 8

These values can be added together, eg, 5 is shutdown and force applications to close and an implicit logoff.

Note their is no Restart without rebooting. This requires a parameter of 42 (hex) to be passed to ExitWindows in User.exe. This can't be done from the command line. See tip above for a work around.

reghakr