Can driver shutdown a machine?

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Hello All,

Is it possible for a device driver to shutdown a machine running Win2000 or
Win98?

Regards,
Rob Barnes

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No. There is no documented interface to do so.

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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:52 PM
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Subject: [ntdev] Can driver shutdown a machine?

Hello All,

Is it possible for a device driver to shutdown a machine running Win2000
or
Win98?

Regards,
Rob Barnes

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Not exactly what your after, but

Try using this,

In a win32 app/service,then send an IOCTL to your driver, complete it in
your driver only when you want the app to shut windows down.

In the App use

BOOL ExitWindowsEx(
UINT uFlags, // shutdown operation
DWORD dwReserved // reserved
);

Rod.

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Subject: [ntdev] Can driver shutdown a machine?

Hello All,

Is it possible for a device driver to shutdown a machine running Win2000 or
Win98?

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posted earlier on ntdev

If you really need it (why?), you can use undocumented ZwShutdownSystem()
function. Unfortunately, it isn’t exported by ntoskrnl.exe so the only way
how to use it from kernel driver is to call it via int 2eh. Be careful,
there may a good reason why it isn’t exported in kernel.

regards
jeseem
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Rodney Sigmund”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Can driver shutdown a machine?

>
> Not exactly what your after, but
>
> Try using this,
>
> In a win32 app/service,then send an IOCTL to your driver, complete it in
> your driver only when you want the app to shut windows down.
>
> In the App use
>
> BOOL ExitWindowsEx(
> UINT uFlags, // shutdown operation
> DWORD dwReserved // reserved
> );
>
>
> Rod.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Barnes [mailto:xxxxx@farallon.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 22 June 2001 7:52
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] Can driver shutdown a machine?
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> Is it possible for a device driver to shutdown a machine running Win2000
or
> Win98?
>
> Regards,
> Rob Barnes
>
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