Thread: Run command when power button pushed

i just redid some test with the lastchance program

it's not perfect but it seem to work

but

when it install it say a dll could not be installed
it seem than you can only add program not remove because of this
sometime the pc was not stoping long enough
so my first line of command is a delayed shut down shutdown -s -f -t 20

and it will wait around 20 sec a tried 30 but i will shutdown anyway

i still have to do some test

Originally Posted by Injector

have you tried making a batch file?

Tried a batch file but am unable to launch it at shutdown and keep the computer from shutting it down. This is my actual problem. I think I can figure out how to launch a command after the shutdown sequence has started. But keeping windows from closing the program before it is completed is another story.

try adding "shutdown -a" to the batch

giving up on this whole idea of trying to run a script in windows xp home.
after doing some rigorous searching through google, it has been tried and failed many many times. It's just not possible.

you could always go pro

That may be the plan, I do have a copy of it. I just hate re-installing windows all the time.
I was thinking of just disabling any shutdown action at all when the power button is pressed and instead have a script to monitor my system power voltage. The idea is when the car turns off there is a power drop because the alternator is no longer charging. When detected a voltage drop below 12 volts for more than 1 minute it will fire the script and begin my personalized shutdown sequence.
I can set my PSU to kill the PC after 10 minutes which should give my computer plenty of time to shutdown and complete the script.

It is not impossible. I havent checked this thread because I figured someone would have given an answer.

If any of you have some programming knowledge, trap Windows' messages! Windows tells each program to close nicely, and prior to Vista, the programs had an option as to whether or not they would shut down.

This caused problems because people would press shutdown and the computer would still be on 5 minutes later before they realized that something went wrong!

From MSDN:

"The WM_QUERYENDSESSION message is sent when the user chooses to end the session or when an application calls one of the system shutdown functions. If any application returns zero, the session is not ended. The system stops sending WM_QUERYENDSESSION messages as soon as one application returns zero.

After processing this message, the system sends the WM_ENDSESSION message with the wParam parameter set to the results of the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message

That was my plan.. but I've been busy with work. Looking into it now while my wife is on the Wii Fit.

If someone can create a solution for my it would be greatly appreciated. I am getting pretty good with AutoIT but anyother type of program is still greek to me..