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i tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly!<br />
thanks<br />

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i tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly!
thanks


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i am trying to programatically shut down the computer, in Windows NT, but i receive an &quot;Access is denied&quot; error on the call to InitiateSystemShutdown. &nbsp;how can i gain this access?<br />
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// shut down<br />
iReturn = InitiateSystemShutdown (NULL, &nbsp; // address of name of computer to shut down &nbsp;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NULL, &nbsp; // address of message to display in dialog box <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;// seconds to display dialog box <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; FALSE, &nbsp;// force applications with unsave<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; FALSE); // don't reboot flag <br />
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if (iReturn == FALSE) // if InitiateSystemShutdown call failed<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; iError = GetLastError(); // iError = 5, which is &quot;Access is denied&quot;
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i am trying to programatically shut down the computer, in Windows NT, but i receive an "Access is denied" error on the call to InitiateSystemShutdown.  how can i gain this access?
(code snippet follows)

// shut down
iReturn = InitiateSystemShutdown (NULL,   // address of name of computer to shut down  
                                  NULL,   // address of message to display in dialog box 
                                  0,      // seconds to display dialog box 
                                  FALSE,  // force applications with unsave
                                  FALSE); // don't reboot flag 
 
if (iReturn == FALSE) // if InitiateSystemShutdown call failed
    iError = GetLastError(); // iError = 5, which is "Access is denied"

Shutdown in NT

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