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Detect Windows Shutdown/Logoff/Restart event ?


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Is it possible to detect when windows is shutting down, restarting, or logging off.

I have two applications that don't seem to be able to figure that out, and it causes all kinds of errors during the above events.

So I'd like to have a little script running in the background that will detect the event and kill the two processes.

Thanks,

Kenny

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There were several "intercept shutdown" examples in the forum.
This is one of them:

GUIRegisterMsg($WM_QUERYENDSESSION, "Cancel_Shutdown")
GUICreate("PreventShutdownGUI")
GUISetSTate(@SW_HIDE)

; set highest notification level
If Not _SetProcessShutdownParameters(0xFFF) Then ; MSDN says maximum is 0x4FF, but it worked for me
    If Not _SetProcessShutdownParameters(0x4FF) Then ; MSDN says this is reserved for System, but worked for me
        _SetProcessShutdownParameters(0x3FF) ; highest not reserved number, if everything else does not work
    EndIf
EndIf

Global $b_ShutdownInitiated = False

While 1
    If $b_ShutdownInitiated = True then
        $b_ShutdownInitiated = False
        MsgBox(48 + 8192 + 262144, "Installer", "Ending your user session has been disabled to allow the installation to complete." _
        & @CRLF & @CRLF & "You will be able to shutdown/reboot/logoff once the installation process has completed." , 8)
    EndIf
    sleep(10)
WEnd

Func Cancel_Shutdown($hWndGUI, $MsgID, $WParam, $LParam)
    $b_ShutdownInitiated = True
    ; DO NOT ADD A MSGBOX HERE
    ; Windows shows a not responding box after ~5 secs and allows to kill your app.
    Return False
EndFunc


Func _SetProcessShutdownParameters($dwLevel, $dwFlags=0)
    ; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686227%28VS.85%29.aspx
    ; Prog@ndy
    Local $aResult = DllCall("Kernel32.dll", "int", "SetProcessShutdownParameters", "dword", $dwLevel, "dword", $dwFlags)
    If @error Then Return SetError(1,0,0)
    Return $aResult[0]
EndFunc

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thanks I will test it, but it will be interesting yet, because actually I have a service running which needs to know this so it does not start doing some stuff during shutdown. So I will have to make this other process maybe write some value into registry and the service will check it before running the risky functions...

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