Controlling Sequence In Which Applications Are Shut Down?

[(PeteCresswell)]

I just ran into a situation where:

- I was connecting to a PC remotely using something
called "TeamViewer"

- I upgraded MS Office to 2007

- The Office install had to re-booted the PC

- During the shutdown process, TeamViewer got
killed before it got to some other applications
like Excel and some that I have never heard of.

- Those applications issued prompts that needed tb
replied to in order to continue the shutdown

- I couldn't reply bc my connection had been shut
down by virtue of TeamViewer having been killed.

- Had to drive to the site, hook up a monitor/keyboard
to the PC and take it from there.


Seems like I'd want to set things up so that TeamViewer
was always the last application to be terminated in the
event of a PC shutdown and/or reboot.

Is there a way?

 

[John Wunderlich]

I just ran into a situation where:

- I was connecting to a PC remotely using something
called "TeamViewer"

- I upgraded MS Office to 2007

- The Office install had to re-booted the PC

- During the shutdown process, TeamViewer got
killed before it got to some other applications
like Excel and some that I have never heard of.

- Those applications issued prompts that needed tb
replied to in order to continue the shutdown

- I couldn't reply bc my connection had been shut
down by virtue of TeamViewer having been killed.

- Had to drive to the site, hook up a monitor/keyboard
to the PC and take it from there.


Seems like I'd want to set things up so that TeamViewer
was always the last application to be terminated in the
event of a PC shutdown and/or reboot.

Is there a way?

The best practice is to quit all programs before doing an install.

Barring that, most installs that need a reboot will pause at the end
and allow you to "Reboot Later" or at least pause and make you hit the
"OK" button. If Reboot Later is a choice pick that. Then hit:
Start -> Run
and in the box that pops up, enter the following command:
shutdown -r -f -t 60

This will start a 60 second timer (giving you time to gracefully log
off thereby stopping your applications) after which the computer will
reboot. The "-f" option is supposed to force all running applications
to quit without displaying any confirmation dialog. This works most of
the time, but there are exceptions.

HTH,
John