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Re: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx Bill Walters Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:32:54 -0600

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David,

Well, that certainly shuts down windows; any chance of finding some way to
just make it reboot?

I looked in C:\windows\system\user.exe and searched...  I did find the key
"ExitWindows" but nothing that looked promising to Restart (such as
RstrtWindows or anything close)...



Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: David Kindred <david_kindred@iname.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx


> Okay, if you make it:
>
> c:\windows\rundll32 user.exe,ExitWindows
>
> and set it to Execute/NW, you're in business. Sorry about the last couple
of
> notes. My only excuse is that I'm stupid.  :-)
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kindred [mailto:david_kindred@iname.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:41 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
>
>
> No, wait, that didn't seem to work from within ECS. Worked fine from the
> command line. I've got to figure this one out. Rats.
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kindred [mailto:david_kindred@iname.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:32 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
>
>
> I looked on Dejanews and found the answer, I think. If you make a text
item
> with the following in it, it should reboot the system if you set it to
> execute:
>
> rundll user.exe,ExitWindows
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:05 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
>
>
> I did find a refernce to using RUNDLL but it didn't work for me.  Used a
> search engine and forget where it referenced me to (think it was PC-MAG
> archives or ZDTV archives?)
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Kindred <david_kindred@iname.com>
> To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
>
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > I don't have the note any longer, but about 1.5 to 2 years ago, someone
on
> > the HomeVision list had a way of rebooting the machine by shelling out
to
> > RUNDLL. Maybe someone has the notes going back that far?
> >
> > --David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:54 PM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
> >
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > Yea, I've got Ace-WS but it won't successfully close out ECS and reboot
my
> > system.
> >
> > Maybe I should be asking Mark how we should do this??
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Don Stephens <donstephens@101freeway.com>
> > To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 7:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
> >
> >
> > > Hey Capt!
> > >
> > > try this URL
> > >
> > > http://www.infinet.com/~dhoehnen/software/ace.htm
> > >
> > > There should be a program called ACE-WS. It sometimes works for me.
> > >
> > > Don
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bill Walters" <wtwalters@home.com>
> > > To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 5:35 PM
> > > Subject: [ECS] Auto Reboot of Win98 and ECS 4.2.xx
> > >
> > >
> > > > Anyone found a way to automatically reboot your ECS 4.2.xx / Win98
> > system
> > > > without errors?
> > > >
> > > > Bill Walters
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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