Shutting dwn a win200 server pc

[opashafiq]

I want to shut down a windows200 pc regularly at a fixed time regularly
automatically.
how can i made this by vb?
can any batch file help me?

[Shuja Ali]

You could try ExitWindowsEx API to do this..

here is a sample from ALLAPI.NET

'In general section
Const EWX_LOGOFF = 0
Const EWX_SHUTDOWN = 1
Const EWX_REBOOT = 2
Const EWX_FORCE = 4
Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
	'KPD-Team 1998
	'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
	'E-Mail: [email protected]
	msg = MsgBox("This program is going to reboot your computer. Press OK to continue or Cancel to stop.", vbCritical + vbOKCancel + 256, App.Title)
	If msg = vbCancel Then End
	'reboot the computer
	ret& = ExitWindowsEx(EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT, 0)
End Sub

[opashafiq]

I tried it.
but it doesn't work.
is there any dos command to do so?

[Shuja Ali]

I tried it.
but it doesn't work.
is there any dos command to do so?

I have a Windows 2000 PC with SP4.
It works perfectly on my system.
What exactly are you trying to do..

[pangolin_10]

the command for shutdown on nt based systems under windows is-
"shutdown -[option]"
try out shell shutdown -l
or
shell "shutdown -l"