Shutdown PC

[johnisotank]

Hi All,

I am trying to make a program which will shutdown a PC.

I have the following code:

Call Shell("Shutdown /s") 'to shutdown

This does set off the shutdown process but if there are any programs running then some of them just hang and the system never actually shuts down.

Is there a switch to say "Force all programs to close"?

Thanks
John

 

[johnisotank]

Found it now,

Call Shell("Shutdown -s -f") 'to shutdown

F switch to force shutdown.

Thanks anyway

John

 

[johnisotank]

Back again! this question ties in with the previous one so thought best not to raise another thread..

I have some code that puts my monitor into sleep mode but I wondered if there was a way to actually turn the monitor off- i.e user must physically press the button to turn it back on again (a simple mouse move or keyboard stroke should not re-awaken it)

Public Class Form1
    Public Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32.dll" _
Alias "PostMessageA" _
(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, _
ByVal wMsg As Int32, _
ByVal wParam As Int32, _
ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32

    Public Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112&
    Public Const SC_MONITORPOWER = &HF170& ' (-1)=On; 1=stdby; 2=Off

'Button to turn off monitor
 Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        PostMessage(Me.Handle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, 2&)
    End Sub