Solved Shutting Down Command

[maptwo3]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to put this, but oh well....

I'm trying to create a program that shuts my computer down after a specified amount of time. I figured everything out, but I believe you have to add parameters when you launch shutdown.exe so that it actually shuts down ("/s" and "/f"). This is what I have so far:

ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, "C:/Windows/System32/shutdown.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

This launches notepad.exe and other programs just fine, so I'm assuming I would need a parameter for it.
Does anyone know how to add parameters to shutdown.exe? Or a better way to do this?

Thanks.

 

[Rake]

Use this

// Get the process token
HANDLE hToken;
OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY,
    &hToken);

// Build a token privilege request object for shutdown
TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tk;
tk.PrivilegeCount = 1;
tk.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, TEXT("SeShutdownPrivilege"), &tk.Privileges[0].Luid);

// Adjust privileges
AdjustTokenPrivileges(hToken, FALSE, &tk, 0, NULL, 0);

// Go ahead and shut down
InitiateSystemShutdownEx(NULL, NULL, 0, FALSE, FALSE, 0);

from Stack Overflow How to turn off pc via windows API?

 

[maptwo3]

I found out that you can shutdown your computer by using system("shutdown").

I'm still kinda wondering if its possible to do it the other way though.

 

[voidisalive]

you can pass commands on system("shutdown -command -command etc..");

 

[iVision]

System is a bad coding practice, maybe you can use CreateProcess for this?

 

[maptwo3]

How would I do it using createprocess? I would still need to add the parameters to the process for shutdown.exe to actually work.