zedox Posted August 24, 2006 Posted August 24, 2006 Hey guys, I've briefly searched so please don't flame me...What is the registry key that disables the prompt...Other people are logged on to this compter. Shutting down windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to continue shutting down? Thanks
T D Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 You can't disable via the registry to my knowledge.
zedox Posted August 25, 2006 Author Posted August 25, 2006 Is there any other way to disable it then?Sometimes during the night my pc wakes me up (fans, noisy)So i'll stagger over to it and hit the off button.. but as its locked that message comes up, so I have to log in to switch off!
Takeshi Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 Looking at it from another angle, why don't you disable fast user switching, or why not just shutdown the PC before you sleep?
zedox Posted August 29, 2006 Author Posted August 29, 2006 haha... good points.Normally I can sleep with it on. Anyway I have the Zalman silent water cooler, might get the Antec phantom 500 then the pc won't make any noise!
zedox Posted August 29, 2006 Author Posted August 29, 2006 (edited) Needless to say turned off fast user switching, but I have secure screen saver...So if the screen saver activates, I have to log back in to shut down.There must be a way to stop this message?! Edited August 29, 2006 by antonio_king
Bezalel Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 Hey guys, I've briefly searched so please don't flame me...What is the registry key that disables the prompt...Other people are logged on to this compter. Shutting down windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to continue shutting down? ThanksYou can't disable the prompt but you can dismiss it after 1 millisecond. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry462391
zedox Posted August 29, 2006 Author Posted August 29, 2006 I decided to use RegMon to watch what happens when I hit the power button and discovered that Winlogon.exe was attempting to query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\ShutdownWarningDialogTimeout After searcing on google and getting no results I set the value to dword:0 and tried to shutdown and nothing happened then I set the value to dword:1 and the server shut down almonst instantly when I pushed the power button.Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]"ShutdownWarningDialogTimeout"=dword:00000001This value specifies how long (I think in milliseconds) a user will be warned that other users are using a computer when attempting a shutdown 0=indefinateKey shutdownWarningDialogTimeout doesnt exist...So I created it as a dword and set the value to 1.Still no change...
zedox Posted August 29, 2006 Author Posted August 29, 2006 I ran regmon, there are loads of querys on winlogon.exe but nothing for that key?
T D Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 Maybe it's not winlogon? But maybe crss or something?
Bezalel Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 I ran regmon, there are loads of querys on winlogon.exe but nothing for that key?Everything I did was on Windows 2003. Windows XP might work differently. The fact that the key isn't documented doesn't seem to help.Try enabling Remote Desktop. I think this key was implemented for Terminal Server so it might have to be runnung for the key to work.
zedox Posted August 29, 2006 Author Posted August 29, 2006 I do have remote desktop enabled.Ah man, am I gonna find a way around this!?
zedox Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 So does anyone else no of a solution to this?!I have an idea... Is it possible to change what program pressing the shutdown button runs?
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