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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Multimedia / May 2004W98SE, WM9, Task Manager and AutoShutdown
I have a W98SE machine with WM9 that I use to stream music from the Internet. The machine has a BIOS that turns it on every morning at the same time - works great - wish more machines had this! Problem is shutting down. I use Task Manager to shut down W98, but it can't shut down WM9 - it always hangs. The shutdown command I am using is: C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE[space]user.exe,exitwindows and it always hangs with "Rundll not responding" If WM9 is not running, it shuts down fine. IF it is running it hangs. So my questions to you are: A. is this the best shut down command I can use? B. Are there better ways to do this? I am so close to having this automated, I can almost taste it! But if it doesn't shut down automatically, I waste a lot of power over the year. Thanks for any help you can provide! In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Thu, 27 May 2004 13:23:35 -0400 "Bruce" <online.bhmiller@verizon.net> posted: >I have a W98SE machine with WM9 that I use to stream music from the >Internet. > >The machine has a BIOS that turns it on every morning at the same time - >works great - wish more machines had this! Who wrote the BIOS? I might like to get one. >Problem is shutting down. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >So my questions to you are: >A. is this the best shut down command I can use? Don't know. >B. Are there better ways to do this? Don't know. (Isn't this the same question as above, just reversed? You're not going to trick me into contradicting myself. :) ) I use C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 The last number determines exactly what happens. 1 = total exit ("Ready to turn off computer") 2 = ?? Restart Windows? 3 = ?? Exit to Dos? 4 = ?? Standby? 5 = ?? Turn off computer???? Let us know what happens. Somehow I think rundll.exe might be left over from windows 3.1. Did you use it then? >I am so close to having this automated, I can almost taste it! But if it >doesn't shut down automatically, I waste a lot of power over the year. > >Thanks for any help you can provide! Meirman If emailing, please let me know whether or not you are posting the same letter. Change domain to erols.com, if necessary. > In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Thu, 27 May 2004 13:23:35 > -0400 "Bruce" <online.bhmiller@verizon.net> posted: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Who wrote the BIOS? I might like to get one. This is an old IBM Aptiva. I have never seen it since - doesn't mean they aren't out there, but it is the only place I have seen it. Hint to manufacturers - we like this feature! > >Problem is shutting down. > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Don't know. But you suggest a new one below! Thanks. > >B. Are there better ways to do this? > > Don't know. (Isn't this the same question as above, just reversed? > You're not going to trick me into contradicting myself. :) ) I as actually asking if there are better ways e.g., trying to shut WM9 down separately from Windows, or something else like that. > I use C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 4 = ?? Standby? > 5 = ?? Turn off computer???? I will try the above and let you know. > Let us know what happens. > > Somehow I think rundll.exe might be left over from windows 3.1. Did > you use it then? No, this is a totally wiped machine, so it isn't leftover, unless like a lot of W98 MS left it in there. The command I got from some old publication - they probably reused it from W31 - saved their researchers time ;-) Thank you for your ideas - I will try them. > >I am so close to having this automated, I can almost taste it! But if it > >doesn't shut down automatically, I waste a lot of power over the year. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Change domain to erols.com, if necessary. In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Fri, 28 May 2004 08:14:40 -0400 "Bruce" <online.bhmiller@verizon.net> posted: >> In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Thu, 27 May 2004 13:23:35 >> -0400 "Bruce" <online.bhmiller@verizon.net> posted: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >But you suggest a new one below! Thanks. But I don't know if yours is the best or not. :) >> >B. Are there better ways to do this? >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >> I use C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 I got this off some webpage, maybe a MS one. >> The last number determines exactly what happens. >> 1 = total exit ("Ready to turn off computer") [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >The command I got from some old publication - they probably reused it from >W31 - saved their researchers time ;-) I still have win3.1 in one of my partitions, and I just checked and there is no rundll*.* in it at all. OTOH, win98 FE has both of them with the same date/time. May 11, '98, at 8:01 PM. >Thank you for your ideas - I will try them. You're welcome. Meirman If emailing, please let me know whether or not you are posting the same letter. Change domain to erols.com, if necessary. |
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