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shinscreen

Jul 29 2005, 12:02 PM

I am working on my HTA menu and have a button that I want to use to reboot the PC. However, I cannot get shutdown.exe to work. I am using PE 2005 with Server 2003 SP1. Is there any other way to tell PE to reboot. I am starting my HTA with the startnet.cmd and am killing

pskill.exe smss.exe
pskill.exe winlogon.exe

so that I can exit the startnet.cmd without it rebooting.

Ideas?

Jazkal

Jul 29 2005, 02:22 PM

I leave the startnet.cmd window in the background behind my HTA app. And my reboot button closes the HTA, and sends "exit" to the CMD window, then WinPE reboots.

Here is the HTA code for the reboot button I'm using:

CODE

Sub reboot_onclick()
Ret = Msgbox("Are you sure you wish to reboot the PC?", vbYesNo)
If ret = vbNo then
     Exit Sub
End if
Do
Do While Counter < 5
     Counter = Counter + 1
If Counter = 6 Then
     Check = False
     Exit Do
End If
with createobject("wscript.shell")
     .AppActivate ("X")
     .sendkeys "exit"
     .sendkeys "~"
     self.close
end with
Loop
Loop Until Check = False
    End sub

n00dles

Jul 29 2005, 11:24 PM

I do exactly the same thing at the end of my preinstallation script... good ol sendkeys!

gadget

Jul 30 2005, 05:23 AM

I use the attached peshutdown. Has switches to sutdown, force shutdown, reboot etc.

run peshutdown /?

shinscreen

Aug 1 2005, 06:53 AM

Excellent. This is perfect. Thanks alot gadget!

grantericstrong

Aug 13 2007, 07:38 PM

Perfect gadget, just what the doctor ordered.

ordan

Sep 3 2008, 02:15 AM

-- blp --

WreX

Sep 3 2008, 06:41 AM

I don't know about 2005, but with PE 2.x you can just issue the integrated "wpeutil shutdown" or "wpeutil reboot" commands. No need for any 3rd party utilities.

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