Restart and Shutdown Windows XP - Visual Studio

[Phil Tusa]

Greetings to all ....

I have a need to issue a shutdown and/or Restart Windows XP inside my
application. Any help or example code would be appreciated!

 

[Guest]

An easy way is just to call the Shutdown.exe command with the Process.Start
method, passing the desired switches:

Shutdown the computer

Syntax

SHUTDOWN [logoff_option] [/m \\Computer] [options]

logoff_option:
/i Display the GUI (must be the first option) /l Log
off. This cannot be used with /m or /d option /s Shutdown /r
Shutdown and Restart /a Abort a system shutdown.
(only during the time-out period)
/p Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning
(only with /d) /h Hibernate the local computer (only with
/f ) /e Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a
computer

options:
/m \\Computer : A remote computer to shutdown.

/t:xxx : Time until system shutdown in seconds.
The valid range is xxx=0-600 seconds. [default=30]
/c "Msg" : An optional shutdown message [Max 127 chars]

/f : Force running applications to close.
This will not prompt for File-Save in any open
applications.
so will result in a loss of all unsaved data!!!

/d u:xx:yy : List a USER reason code for the shutdown.
/d P:xx:yy : List a PLANNED reason code for the shutdown.
xx Specifies the major reason code (0-255)
yy Specifies the minor reason code (0-65536)

-- Peter

 

[Phil Tusa]

Thanks Peter for your very quick and helpful response!

 

[Abhishek Tripathi]

Greetings to all ....

I have a need to issue a shutdown and/or Restart Windows XP inside my
application. Any help or example code would be appreciated!

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("shutdown -f -s -t 0");

I think this should solve your problem

 

[Martin Carpella]

Greetings to all ....

I have a need to issue a shutdown and/or Restart Windows XP inside my
application. Any help or example code would be appreciated!

Besides the solutions mentioned by the others, if you do not want to
spawn another process, have a look at the ExitWindowsEx Win32-API
function[1] (user32.dll).

Best regards,
Martin

[1] http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/ExitWindowsEx.html

 

[Phil Tusa]

Thanks to everyone for your helpful assistance!