yeah, i want it to be like a shortcut, i want to put it in the menu in blackbox
(shell replacement), and i want it to show the normal shutdown dialog that you
get when normally choosing shutdown from the startmenu. after posting here i
found one line that was supposed to work when you put it in a .js file, but it
didn't. i'm not getting any errors when running it, but nothing happens
the line was
(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindows();
i also found it (written with more lines, but the same thing) on microsoft
msdn-something site, so it should be correct (tried the one with more lines as
well). there was also a similar code snippet on the same page, but in vbs. i
tried the same thing with that, put it in a .vbs file but nothing happens when i
run it, no errors either...
am i doing something wrong or is my computer just being uncooperative?
is there a command line or shortcut i can use to bring up the shutdown dialog in windows xp?
click on the startbar background to deselect all the open windows then press alt f4.
XP also has a 'shutdown' command that can be used in shortcuts to logoff, reboot, shutdown, etc. shutdown -? will give you the options.
yeah, i want it to be like a shortcut, i want to put it in the menu in blackbox (shell replacement), and i want it to show the normal shutdown dialog that you get when normally choosing shutdown from the startmenu. after posting here i found one line that was supposed to work when you put it in a .js file, but it didn't. i'm not getting any errors when running it, but nothing happens
the line was
(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindows();
i also found it (written with more lines, but the same thing) on microsoft msdn-something site, so it should be correct (tried the one with more lines as well). there was also a similar code snippet on the same page, but in vbs. i tried the same thing with that, put it in a .vbs file but nothing happens when i run it, no errors either...
am i doing something wrong or is my computer just being uncooperative?
Try "rundll32 msgina.dll,ShellShutdownDialog" on the command line. It should open at least some sort of a shutdown dialog...
shutdown -i or a
jusa! thank you! that was exactly what i was looking for! thank you!