Update Rebooting from Netlogon Script

Chris Tooley ctooley at joslyn.org
Fri Jun 9 15:11:14 GMT 2000


I was just wanting to pass on the knowledge I gained from this
experience.

1)  Rebooting Windows 9x is a terrible pain in the butt, but it can be
done.  I'm pretty sure that having a command called reboot that
"reboot"s the system, would be WAY too difficult for them to understand.

2)  I got a response from Osama Abu-Aish that told me to use
Rundll32.exe and this is correct.  There are some shell32 options you
can pass to this command that do a number of things (although the
options are passed in a very unconventional way.  I have listed a small
number of them below.

rundll32.exe shell32,SHExitWindowsEx X

where the last "X" is a number.

     0 - LOGOFF
     1 - SHUTDOWN
     2 - REBOOT
     4 - FORCE
     8 - POWEROFF
  
 Or any combination thereof, by adding the values together, giving 16
possible shutdown/restart sequences.

I wish there was a better place to document something like this as it's
obvious that Microsoft isn't offering it up very readily.

Chris Tooley


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