Thread: force shutting down, power off win98

referring to

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...emshutdown.asp

it says

Windows Me/98/95: Because of the design of the shell, calling ExitWindowsEx with EWX_FORCE fails to completely log off the user (the system terminates the applications and displays the Enter Windows Password dialog box, however, the user's desktop remains.) To log off the user forcibly, terminate the Explorer process before calling ExitWindowsEx with EWX_LOGOFF and EWX_FORCE.

i encountered the "Enter Windows Password dialog box" problem. So according to MSDN i should "terminate the Explorer process before calling ExitWindowsEx with EWX_LOGOFF and EWX_FORCE."

question : how exactly do i "terminate the Explorer process before calling ExitWindowsEx with EWX_LOGOFF and EWX_FORCE." ??

http://www.google.com/search?q=termi...rminateprocess

Second result:

The best way to close the explorer is this:

Code:

PostMessage(FindWindow('Progman', 'Program Manager'), WM_QUIT, 0, 0);

This is an undocumented solution to ask the explorer politely to close down and the explorer obeys. Windows itself uses this approach to close the explorer down. Using TerminateProcess can make things unstable, especially in win9x. Please note, that this approach only works this way for the explorer. Normally you shouldn't be using WM_QUIT.