Re: Rebooting a PC while not logged-on

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From: Chris Davis (Laguna.S3_at_newsgroup.nospam)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:09:02 -0800

"Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd" wrote:

> In article <34148B07-90F8-4C36-A057-7CA2E9BDA569@microsoft.com>,
> Laguna.S3@newsgroup.nospam (=?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXMgRGF2aXM=?=) wrote:
>
> > I have a customer reporting a similar problem with our Windows
> > service which spawns child processes to perform custom tasks.
>
> Did a little searching, the reboot problem seems to be known by Microsoft in
> Knowledgebase 834100, 'You cannot use the shutdown command to shut down or
> to restart Windows Server 2003 remotely', and this seems to also apply to
> services.
>
> There is apparently a hotfix, a new version of winlogon.exe dated 7 Jan
> 2004, so clearly an old problem. I might download the 2003 SP1 beta and see
> if the new file is there.
>
> Angus

I got an official reply to my new thread which talks about the effect of the
winlogon Ctrl+Alt+Del screen (controlled by the DisableCAD registry entry in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon).

It also references KB article Q816938 for Windows XP.

- Chris