Rebooting a Win9x box (was: Rebooting a windows 2000 box)

Jong B. Lee jbdoll@kepri.re.kr
Fri Aug 10 17:34:00 GMT 2001


> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:28:32PM +0200, hans nohack wrote:
> > If it's a Win9x box how about calling "rundll32.exe 
> > shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 6"?
> > (that should end all programs and reboot win9x)
> 
> Looks interesting. Does that work from a console window, too?
> 
> Corinna
> 
Yes.

I've tested other options on Win98

Logoff      : rundll32 shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0
Shutdown : rundll32 shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1
Restart     : rundll32 shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 2



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