How to automatically shut-down?

[Guest]

Hi,
I have machines installed with WEPOS, and an application for POS as well.
The keyboard is designed fo POS machines, which only consists of numbers and
Enter button; without Windows button and a mouse.
Anyone know how to make a simple shortcut using keypad numbers to shutdown
Windows, just like if we click Shut Down button?
Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Perry]

Perhaps create a batch file called 321.bat that contains "xpepm
-shutdown"?

 

[Bing.Chen]

Dear Dhow,

I suggest you to create an application to intercept some hotkey.

Therefore, you can use some combination of num keys and the application
will receive it to execute the shutdown action.

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Bing Chen
Advantech Co., Ltd.
Microsoft eMVP

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[Guest]

Bing Chen,

That'll be unlikely to be efficient.
Because that would means there'll be more and more applications run on the
background, and the WEPOS resources (memory and processor) will be drawn
again.
The programmers are making that POS application in C# language, and it
seemed we're determined to make the shutdown of WEPOS as part of the
application itselves.

Any new suggestions?
Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Perry,

If the programmers created a .bat file, that would mean the WEPOS have to
run another process and that would mean drawing more machine's resources
(memory & processors) which is already at it's limited prowess.
I'm sorry, but that .bat file is not such a good suggestion.

Any more new?
Thanks!

 

[Jason]

If you want to shutdown, have you developers call shutdown.exe from within
the C# when time calls.

 

[Guest]

Jason,

we've already think of this possibility to make the shortcut for Windows
shutdown.
But we're currently looking for more hard-core shutdown shortcuts in C#
language that can speak directly to Windows without calling for an .exe file.
Because calling for .exe file to be executed, would means more resources
(memory & processor) to be use with it.
But thank you again for your suggestion.

 

[Perry]

You can build in the xpepm.dll file and related header to call the
shutdown
command from within your code:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xerefxpe_shutdown.asp

Perry