Shutdown from c++

[slarty]

Shutting down, rebooting or logging of can be accomplished in Windows by using ExitWindows or ExitWindowsEx.

These work fine in win9x - but in NT (i.e. Win2k + XP too) you need to faff around with privileges to shut down or reboot.

In windows NT etc, it's far too much effort, you should get a command line program like in the resource kit reboot.exe for you

Just RTFM for ExitWindows or ExitWindowsEx (I think)

Mark

[pakdhe]

i think there is a mizundaztanding

ihsir just want to shut down his dos, but the other think that he want to shut down his windows

the problem is, usually dos cannot doing any auto power off, so if you execute that outport condition, it will do the restarting (i have read one, but it use interrupt)
if the problem, is you want the user of your program cannot use the computer after he fail 3 times,
then you can off the ctrl-break condition, then do a not-end-loop

hope it work

[ihsir]

atleast pakdhe you understood about the dos and window confusion

so you say that there's no way closing a system from pure dos mode.

i dont want a 'never-ending' or a 'stop' loop i had that before but it didn't look nice so that's why i want to perform shutdown.

[Rewandythal]

Just get it to ignore all keypresses afrer 3 attempts at login or whatever. The only way round is to reboot or power off. Just have it go to blank screen and not accept any input. Ctrl. Alt. Delete will still work to reboot, of course, unless there's some way of trapping that key sequence and ignoring it... But I think DOS likes to keep hold of that one in case programs go into endless loops and you have to manually reboot?!

[the_JinX]

there are many ways to trap ctr_alt_delete in dos...

There used to be a 4k proggy to halt my pc... can't remember... well sorry I'm on linux now...

halt