Preserved Topic: Shutting down on WinME

I want to run a Perl script in my laptop (WinME box) when I shut it down...

How can I set events to take place during the shutdown sequence on Windows?


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dont know about ME, but on NT-based machines there is the so called command

shutdown -s

if you can call that somehow in perl?

but i dont know what you mean with events during the shutdown sequence?

I know Windows goes thru a bunch of stuff when shuts down, I just want it to include my script in that 'bunch of stuff'...

{Clarification}-- is there, like, a reg key I should look for or a 'Shutodown.bat' in the Windows directory?


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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 06-25-2002).]

check out www.zdnet.com they had a program which handled this (ran anything you wanted before shutting down). I don't remember the name but a quick search should uncover it.

There aren't any folders or registry keys where you can put all the links to programs you want to run on Windows shutdown, they only exist for startup.

I don't know if it's possible to execute programs from a perl script, but if it was possible you could run

rundll32 user.exe,exitwindows

to shut Windows down and run the script instead of shutting Windows down the way you do it now. Or, if that isn't possible, you can create a .bat file on your desktop with one line that executes the perl script and another one that calls the shutdown command afterwards.

kuckus (cell #282)

I found one mention of 'rundll32 user.exe,exitwindows' in my 'user.dat' and two in the registry, but I think they only showed up there because I ran the search ('ContainingTextMRU'- whatever that is)....so, nothing good...

ok, let's reverse engineer this.... somewhere, there's got to be a file that has a line in machine code that connects the shutdown button on the start menu to 'rundll32 user.exe,exitwindows'.... hmm.... any ideas how to find it?

{edit} oh, by the way- chew on this...


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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 06-26-2002).]