running programs as 98 shuts down

[The PIT]

Is this possible to do as part of the shutdown sequance.

[cjolley]

Damn good question!
They put in a "Startup" folder.
Why not a "Shutdown" folder too?
Chuck

[Wombat]

Yeah there is, but I'll have to look around to dig up the info again. It will be a while.

[Gurm]

Can't do it in NT-based systems though.

- Gurm

[KeiFront]

Try this script just paste it in notepad and save it as exit.vbs. I use it to start defrag and when defrag finishes windows will shutdown. You can offcourse choose you're own program before shutting down .


Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

objShell.Run "c:\windows\defrag.exe /ALL /NOPROMPT",1,true
objShell.Run "RunDll32.exe user.exe,ExitWindows"

[The PIT]

I'll give it a shot.
Actually all I need to know whether windoze has been shut down properly rather than striaght off. Now windows does that so where does it store the info?

[rubank]

I´m not 100% sure I fully understand what your after, but if you want to make sure that all running processes are shutdown gracefully you can bypass the startmenu shutdown with a simple shortcut (on your desktop).

make a shortcut with the command

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx x


where the x set to 0 will shut down all running proc. and log off, and set to 1 will shut down the system to a point where it is safe to turn power off.

This is for win98.

rubank