Tools to analyse XPE shutdown.

[Henrik]

Hi,

I have problems shutting down my XPE.

I would like to analyse what happens when XPE shows: "Saving your settings"
/ "Windows is shutting down".
Why does it stop, what is it waiting for to proceed ?.

I there any tools I could use i would help me in this way ?.

Thanks,

Henrik.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Henrik,

What do you use for shuting down XPe?

You can use:

1. fba -shutdown
2. xpepm -shudown

Also make sure that this machine support shutdown and that you have used
ACPI kernel instead of "Standard PC" components.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Henrik]

Hi',

I'm interested in tools to analyse what happen during shutdown when XPE
hangs.
But, to answer Your questions:
From our .net application we use the ExitWindowsEx function.
The ACPI component is used.

Is it Your experience that the "fba -shutdown" or "xpepm -shudown" always
(and i mean always) work ?.


Thanks,

Henrik.

 

[KM]

Henrik,

I'm interested in tools to analyse what happen during shutdown when XPE hangs.

You can try MS BootVis. Although I don't recall precisely if it shows any shutdown statistics.

But, to answer Your questions:
From our .net application we use the ExitWindowsEx function.
The ACPI component is used.

You may find some info in this thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded/msg/b80de8ba6e74c3d2?hl=en

Is it Your experience that the "fba -shutdown" or "xpepm -shudown" always
(and i mean always) work ?.

These both menhods call directly to NtShutdownSystem. (but not ExitWindows)

Another try for you could be disabling the GUI for the shutdown screen.
Add the following key: [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windo-ws\CurrentVersion\Policies\Sys-tem],"DisableStatusMessages"=dword:1

KM