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Moving Files during NT logoff/shutdown 

Keywords:	NT user logoff

NOTICE:

IntControl 1005 was removed from documentation as it did not work as people wished. It worked on on Windows 95/98/ME machines, but was not at all satifactory on NT/2000/XP/2003 machines.

WORKAROUND:

This is a possible workaround for IntControl 1005 on NT platforms. The idea is to Launch a WinBatch service (.exs) and have it monitor for the Shutdown/Logoff message, execute any shutdown/logoff code then exit! You can install the service on the fly using wntSvcCreate then start it using wntSvcStart. http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/Functions+IntControl~1005.txt

Question:

I am trying to detect a NT user logoff sequence and move some files around before the logoff actually completes. I'm trying to use following code but it does not work. The IntControl(12...) does not stop the logoff process in order for me to be able to initialize the new cmd process. I know there is a way for winbatch to do this since if I respond with the cancel button on the winbatch prompt to "make for sure all other applications are closed" it actually terminates the logoff process. What am I missing???

Note: I have also tried options 2, 8, and 10 witht the IntControl(12....) function. 

Debug (1)
rc = IntControl(1005, 0, 0, 0, 0) 
If rc == @FALSE
new=IntControl(1005, 1, 0, 0, 0) ; enter shutdown mode
Endif

rc = IntControl(12, 2, 0, 0, 0) 

; if we got here, we're running in shutdown mode

Display(1, "Windows Shutdown", "WinBatch shutdown processing begins now")
RunWait("CMD.EXE", "/c Chkdsk")
Do you know of another way of accomplishing my goals other than the one above?

After running the wbt file, WinBatch prompts me with the following dialog box when I try to logoff "Winbatch Shutdown Notification, Please close all other windows and then select OK, or select Cancel to stop the shutdown process".

How is WinBatch doing this (stopping the shutdown process)? I want to be able to duplicate this message and functionality with a winbatch script (or other language) - I do not want WinBatch itself prompting for this message.

How do I duplicate this action using winbatch or another language? All I want to do is:

  1. detect a logoff
  2. stop the logoff
  3. run a pgm/bat
  4. restart the logoff/shutdown process
I know that winbatch can do this because you are doing it internally to Winbatch. How do i do it?

Answer:

You will notice that NT shuts down windows one at a time. With WinBatch under NT, the other windows are not touched until WinBatch is taken care of. So you have to close the other manually.

From another program...

  1. detect a logoff 
    Process the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message.
  2. stop the logoff 
    Return FALSE to the above message.
  3. run a pgm/bat 
    WinExec is the easy one. CreateProcess is the official one
  4. restart the logoff/shutdown process 
    ExitWindowsEx
Note: In NT not all the windows will necessarily be closed.

A user also provided the following invaluable information:

The only way to guarantee enough time to have the files copy before the shutdown happens is to control the ENTIRE shutdown process.

In our configurations, we have enabled a policy for the workstations (Win95 in this case, but NT works the same way) to disable SHUTDOWN on the menu. Then we copy a shortcut called SHUTDOWN.LNK into the Start Menu Folder of the machine (in our case this is pointing to a network drive, again using policies). This runs the SHUTDWN.EXE program, which uses Winbatch to present an interface to the user, copy files and shutdown the workstation using INT66,67 and 68 commands.

In the following SHUTDWN.WBT script, you can customize to your requirements.

We use this to allow copying user files to their Home directory so that Win16 application settings can "move around" with the user. The only prerequisite to this is that you MUST disable the Shutdown command for the users using POLEDIT on the Login directory and copy in the shortcut for the new shutdown (you can use an Icon Edit program to change the icon to whatever you want) into the users' Start menu. If you don't disable the Shutdown command, you will get TWO of them which is confusing to the users. 


; Script to shutdown windows. This script will copy all the necessary ini files to the H: dirve
; and will shut down windows. It will prompt the user to close all files before shutting down.

;bug(@ON)

sounds(0)

;Define Vars

drive = "H:"

;Define the dialog format

shdnFormat="WWWDLGED,5.0"
shdnCaption="Windows 95 Shutdown"
shdnx=110
shdny=100
shdnwidth=205
shdnheight=90
shdnnumcontrols=6
shdn01='15,15,170,DEFAULT,RADIOBUTTON,state,"&Shutdown the Computer?",1'
shdn02='15,27,170,DEFAULT,RADIOBUTTON,state,"&Restart the Computer?",2'
shdn03='15,39,170,DEFAULT,RADIOBUTTON,state,"&Close all programs and logon as a different user?",3'
shdn04='30,60,40,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,Default,"&Yes",1'
shdn05='80,60,40,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,Default,"&No",2'
shdn06='130,60,40,DEFAULT,PUSHBUTTON,Default,"&Help",3'
retval = 1

; list of files to be copied up to network (c:\windows to h:\windows)
; session.ini,msmail.ini,trs.ini,odbc.ini,shlt*.ini,msacc20.ini,winproj4.ini
; pww.ini;"c:\Program Files\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini";c:\exchange\mailbox.pab



While @TRUE
  retval = Dialog("shdn")
  switch retval
    case 1
      switch state
	case 1
	  if DiskExist(drive)
	    ErrorMode(@OFF)
	    if FileExist ("h:\exchange\mailbox.pab") != 2
	      if FileExist ("c:\exchange\mailbox.pab") then FileCopy ("C:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB", "H:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB",@FALSE)
	    endif
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\session.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\session.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msmail.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msmail.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\trs.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\trs.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\Program Files\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\PROGRAM FILES\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI", "H:\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\odbc.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\odbc.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\ers.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\ers.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\shltrans.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\shltrans.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msacc20.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msacc20.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\winproj4.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\winproj4.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\pww.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\pww.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    ErrorMode(@CANCEL)
	  endif
	  IntControl(68,0,0,0,0)
	  exit
	case 2
	  if DiskExist(drive) 
	    ErrorMode(@OFF)
	    if FileExist ("h:\exchange\mailbox.pab") != 2
	      if FileExist ("c:\exchange\mailbox.pab") then FileCopy ("C:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB", "H:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB",@FALSE)
	    endif
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\session.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\session.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msmail.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msmail.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\trs.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\trs.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\Program Files\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\PROGRAM FILES\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI", "H:\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\odbc.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\odbc.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\ers.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\ers.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\shltrans.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\shltrans.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msacc20.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msacc20.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\winproj4.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\winproj4.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\pww.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\pww.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif
	    ErrorMode(@CANCEL)
	  endif
	  IntControl(67,0,0,0,0)
	  exit
	case 3
	  if DiskExist(drive) 
	    ErrorMode(@OFF)
	    if FileExist ("h:\exchange\mailbox.pab") != 2
	      if FileExist ("c:\exchange\mailbox.pab") then FileCopy ("C:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB", "H:\EXCHANGE\MAILBOX.PAB",@FALSE)
	    endif
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\session.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\session.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SESSION.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msmail.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msmail.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSMAIL.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\trs.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\trs.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\TRS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\Program Files\faxsrcli\faxsrwin.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\PROGRAM FILES\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI", "H:\FAXSRCLI\FAXSRWIN.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\odbc.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\odbc.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ODBC.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\ers.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\ers.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\ERS.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\shltrans.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\shltrans.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\SHLT*.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\msacc20.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\msacc20.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\MSACC20.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\winproj4.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\winproj4.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\WINPROJ4.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif	  
	    if FileExist ("h:\windows\pww.ini") != 2 
	      if FileExist ("c:\windows\pww.ini") then FileCopy ("C:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI", "H:\WINDOWS\PWW.INI",@FALSE)
	    endif
	    ErrorMode(@CANCEL)
	  endif
	  IntControl(66,0,0,0,0)
	  exit
      endswitch
      break
    case 2
      exit
    case 3
      RunShell("c:\windows\help\overview.hlp", "", "C:\Windows\help", @NORMAL, @NOWAIT)
      break
  endswitch
endwhile



Article ID:   W13315

Filename:   Moving Files during NT Shutdown-Logoff.txt
File Created: 2014:07:18:09:51:38
Last Updated: 2014:07:18:09:51:38