I am working on my HTA menu and have a button that I want to use to reboot the PC. However, I cannot get shutdown.exe to work. I am using PE 2005 with Server 2003 SP1. Is there any other way to tell PE to reboot. I am starting my HTA with the startnet.cmd and am killing

pskill.exe smss.exe

pskill.exe winlogon.exe

so that I can exit the startnet.cmd without it rebooting.

Ideas?

I leave the startnet.cmd window in the background behind my HTA app. And my reboot button closes the HTA, and sends "exit" to the CMD window, then WinPE reboots.

Here is the HTA code for the reboot button I'm using:

Sub reboot_onclick()
  Ret = Msgbox("Are you sure you wish to reboot the PC?", vbYesNo)
  If ret = vbNo then 
 	 Exit Sub
  End if
  Do
  Do While Counter < 5
 	 Counter = Counter + 1
    If Counter = 6 Then
   	 Check = False
   	 Exit Do
    End If
  with createobject("wscript.shell")
 	 .AppActivate ("X")
 	 .sendkeys "exit"
 	 .sendkeys "~"
 	 self.close
  end with
  Loop
  Loop Until Check = False
	End sub

I do exactly the same thing at the end of my preinstallation script... good ol sendkeys!

I use the attached peshutdown. Has switches to sutdown, force shutdown, reboot etc.

run peshutdown /?

peshutdown.exe

Excellent. This is perfect. Thanks alot gadget!

Perfect gadget, just what the doctor ordered.

-- blp --

Edited September 3, 200817 yr by ordan

I don't know about 2005, but with PE 2.x you can just issue the integrated "wpeutil shutdown" or "wpeutil reboot" commands. No need for any 3rd party utilities.