User-friendly System Shut Down Without The WMI

Category:

System/API

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Anonymous

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

The following function and sub procedure is a more user-friendly way to shut down your computer. Previous code submissions have used the WMI to execute this. This code implements a Lib "Shell32" function to accomplish the same.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Private Declare Function SHShutDownDialog Lib "Shell32" Alias "#60" (ByVal YourGuess As Long) As Long

Code: