[wpkg-users] Start WPKG service with run at shutdown

[Mark Cooke]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:30 AM
> 
> Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin at ac-caen.fr> writes:
> 
> I plan to create a shutdown task, late at night, but I need to permit
> users to cancel the shutdown if they are using the computer.
> 
> I found "shut it"[1] which seems doing what I want, any advice to
> shutdown computers and permit late workers to prevent (or better delay)
> the shutdown?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://www.delphiness.com/software.htm


Hi Dan,

In a similar situation, we use Beyond Logic's shutdown.exe to power off systems where there are no users logged in.

Ref:
  http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/shutdown/shutdown.htm


I use WPKG to copy bl_shutdown.exe to the client PC, and setup a batch file that's run as scheduled tasks:

1. At 7pm
2. After 90 minutes of being idle

BL's shutdown has command line parameters to avoid running if someone's logged in, to vary the time before the system is shutdown, and to give the user an option to cancel.  Given I only shutdown if there's no one logged in, we don't actually use the interactive options.


Finally, I haven't yet tested on Windows 7 as the majority of our systems are still XP (as we avoided Vista).  

Cheers,

Mark