Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20010810182244.00a353d0@post.strato.de> X-Sender: hans@nohack.de@post.strato.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:28:32 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: hans nohack Subject: Rebooting a Win9x box (was: Rebooting a windows 2000 box) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:32:31AM -0400, George Planansky wrote: > > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:02:32 +0200 > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:38:00AM +0200, Norbert Fischer wrote: > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > > > *#@^%Windows98$%##&@!+ > > > > > > > > What's this? > > > > > > Cursing. > > > > > > > > > > > > Try using the FORCE flag. Change > > > > > > > > The system trys to shutdown but instead it goes into a crash. > > > > > > Ok, then somebody else has to look. > > > > There is already a windows resource shutdown.exe for nt4, > > c:\NTRESKIT\SHUTDOWN.EXE > > and I would guess the same or modified for win2k. > > Quite capable. Why not just use that? > > The problem is 9x/ME, not W2K. > > Corinna If it's a Win9x box how about calling "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 6"? (that should end all programs and reboot win9x) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/