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shutdown a win 2000 system

hi, is there any way to (by code) shutdown a windows system BUT with a delay? pretty much like shutdown does in Linux

something like i'd like to shutdown the machine in 10 min, so i send 10 min (or the sec.) as a parameter.

it's going to be a quick console application with no timer in it.

thanks!

AvonWyss

There is, but I don't have the correct API calls at hand. However, you migh want to look at the freeware console application PSSHUTDOWN from www.sysinternals.com which does EXACTLY that - even allowing you to shutdown remote machines.

alanwhincup

Have a look at this code here:

http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showcode.php?id=168

alanwhincup

If you don't want to use a timer you could just use the Sleep() function in the SysUtils unit to delay your program for a certain ammount of time. This won't allow your program to process any messages during the execution of the Sleep() function. I sometimes use the below function if i want to process messages during a delayed time period:

procedure Delay(Ms : Longint);
var
TickCount : LongInt;
begin
TickCount := GetTickCount;
while GetTickCount - TickCount < Ms do
Application.ProcessMessages;
end;

urif

ASKER

what i'm looking for is actually how to implement the call to InitiateSystemShutdown().

i tried the code in swissdelphicenter but it just crashes (on a win2k machine running delphi 5)

any ideas on how to implement this API correctly?

thanks

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