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reboot?
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I assume you mean get your program to invoke the 'shutdown' command.
This is the most organised and cleanest way of rebooting the system. Users have a chance to save their work and programs can exit cleanly by properly closing files.
The shutdown command can send a message explaining why, and also provide a delay to allow people to react accordingly.
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This is the most organised and cleanest way of rebooting the system. Users have a chance to save their work and programs can exit cleanly by properly closing files.
The shutdown command can send a message explaining why, and also provide a delay to allow people to react accordingly.
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See also InitiateSystemShutdown() and/or ExitWindowsEx() Win API (and related OpenProcessToken(), LookupPrivilegeValue(), AdjustTokenPrivileges() etc) in MSDN. There are some programmatic shutdown codes examples in C. Your application must have corresponding privileges (to adjust privileges
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