stop a reboot

[jassing]

At a critical stage in a program, I want the program to prevent a shutdown; I know vmware can do this -- and I've seen others.

how do they respond to a "system shutdown has been initiated" and then how do they respond such that they stop it?

Thanks.
-josh

[bule]

You can use command shutdown /a to abort the shutdown process (only when you can see the message that the system is shutting down in x seconds).

[jassing]

Thanks -- but I need to know to respond that a system shutdown has been requested...

There is a message that is sent out "System shutting down" and (as I understand it) a program can respond "Critical, do not shutdown" and the proces is halted.

[sside]

Thanks -- but I need to know to respond that a system shutdown has been requested...

There is a message that is sent out "System shutting down" and (as I understand it) a program can respond "Critical, do not shutdown" and the proces is halted.

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?p=129815#post129815

With Kind Regards
sside

[jassing]

Thanks. however, I can't rely on .net being there.... but that let's me know it can be done by 3rd party dll... any idea what the api is that is called?

[sside]

Thanks. however, I can't rely on .net being there.... but that let's me know it can be done by 3rd party dll... any idea what the api is that is called?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376890(VS.85).aspx

With Kind Regards
sside

[jassing]

Thank you -- exactly what I was looking for.

-josh