restarting PC

[boon kian]

Hi , I have a question here regarding how to use C to restart the PC. situation: I am using win2000 but however I would like to bootup using a win98 floppy disk to verify my systems settings. after checking I would like the PC to reboot so that it can boot from the HD into win2000. I am thinking of using autoexec.bat to help me to automate this process. So how can I write a simple c program to reboot my pc automatically so that i can activate the program through autoexec.bat ?? Please advise! Thank you bk

[Serge Krynine]

Use the ExitWindowsEx() function with the EWX_REBOOT flag. Serge

[rohit dhamija 0]

You need to get priveldges first.Use rebootmysystem() to get priveledges. Best of luck.;) /////////////////////////// void rebootmysystem() if(!ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT| EWX_FORCE ,0)) MessageBox("Couldn't reboot! Please do it manually.", "Installation Complete", MB_OK); //////////////////////////// //to get priveledges void rebootmysystem() { HANDLE hToken; TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tkp; // Get a token for this process. if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken)) AfxMessageBox("Cannot Proceed!. Please restart manually"); // Get the LUID for the shutdown privilege. LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME, &tkp.Privileges[0].Luid); tkp.PrivilegeCount = 1; // one privilege to set tkp.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED; // Get the shutdown privilege for this process. AdjustTokenPrivileges(hToken, FALSE, &tkp, 0, (PTOKEN_PRIVILEGES)NULL, 0); // Cannot test the return value of AdjustTokenPrivileges. if (GetLastError() != ERROR_SUCCESS) AfxMessageBox("Cannot Proceed!. Please restart manually"); // Shut down the system and force all applications to close. }