How to Shut Down the System
The following example uses the ExitWindowsEx function to shut down the system. Shutting down flushes file buffers to disk and brings the system to a condition in which it is safe to turn off the computer. The application must first enable the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege. For more information, see Privileges.
#include <windows.h> #pragma comment(lib, "user32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "advapi32.lib") BOOL MySystemShutdown() { HANDLE hToken; TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tkp; // Get a token for this process. if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken)) return( FALSE ); // Get the LUID for the shutdown privilege. LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME, &tkp.Privileges[0].Luid); tkp.PrivilegeCount = 1; // one privilege to set tkp.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED; // Get the shutdown privilege for this process. AdjustTokenPrivileges(hToken, FALSE, &tkp, 0, (PTOKEN_PRIVILEGES)NULL, 0); if (GetLastError() != ERROR_SUCCESS) return FALSE; // Shut down the system and force all applications to close. if (!ExitWindowsEx(EWX_SHUTDOWN | EWX_FORCE, SHTDN_REASON_MAJOR_OPERATINGSYSTEM | SHTDN_REASON_MINOR_UPGRADE | SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED)) return FALSE; //shutdown was successful return TRUE; }
The final parameter in the call to ExitWindowsEx indicates that the system was shut down for a planning update of the operating system. For more information, see System Shutdown Reason Codes.
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