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Rebooting a Win9x box (was: Rebooting a windows 2000 box)


 >On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:32:31AM -0400, George Planansky wrote:
 > > > From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
 > > > 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)


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