Thread: program stopping shutdown

I believe tweakui can manipulate this for you. I recall an option about forcing shutdown. I haven't used it in a while, so I don't have anything to back this up. Good luck.

Which program is this that your using to control/shutdown the computer? A front end you got from here? Windows? Mac? Linux? Shell? Friggin Magick?

lol sorry , using windows and the shutdown is initiated with an opus psu pulsing the power switch on the atx mother board.

i have to use shutdown right now caus efor some reason hybernate and standby dont recover proprly

I believe tweakui can manipulate this for you

nope i looked i cant see anything in there about forcing a shut down

Well, I was pretty sure it was in there. Anyways, all it does is modify the registry. A quick google search for that registry key pulls up this page. Check out the section about 1/3 the way down called "Force Program Exit".

http://kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_restart.htm

nope still didnt help , I am useing windows media encoder and that is the program that is stopping the shutdown, it pops up a box askng if i want to stop encoding and you have to click yes. nothing i can seem to do will get windows to get past it to shut down.

i cant use hybernate because when it comes back from hybernate the windows encoder program turns off for some reason.

very frustrating

Oooooooh!!! I was thinking it was the dialog box of 'program is not responding, do you want to shut it down'. Hmm, maybe something with a scripter like AutoIt might work.

problem is the computer will have probably already shut the autoIt program down as it started the shutdown sequence. i will try it though

From "Run" or a command prompt, type "gpedit.msc". This pops up the Group Policy editor. Find "Computer Configuration" > "Windows Settings" > "Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)". Open the Shutdown one and add a script from AutoIt or similar with a simple "ProcessClose" and the name of that program. Would that do the trick?