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I have a problem, every few days my company restarts my workstation, and I keep losing work because of this. I opened a support ticket with the support team, but they have no idea how to stop it from happening (typical).

I know that they're not using the shutdown command to restart my PC, because running shutdown -a doesn't stop it from happening.

I was thinking maybe someone has made a "keep alive" app to stop anything from restarting my workstation, so that I can restart it myself when I'm ready to do so (i.e. after I've saved my work, etc). Because of the work I do (I'm a programmer) it's not always possible to save what I'm doing (e.g. if I'm in the middle of debugging something complicated).

Maybe I can intercept and block some sort of shutdown message in the winapi (though this discussion would me more suited to Stack Overflow).

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Does it happen regularly? Is it Windows updates? – Mike Fitzpatrick Aug 31 '10 at 9:06
This is not caused by Windows updates. I'm not sure what application is causing my PC to restart - it could be the anti-virus. I was hoping there was something that could just block Windows from restarting. I believe that fixing the "root cause" is out of my hands. – nbolton Aug 31 '10 at 11:52
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If you unplug the network cable, does it still do it? It could be a remote administration system... Just trying to rule out things you can't control. – Wolf Aug 31 '10 at 12:24
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Have you checked the system event logs? – CarlF Aug 31 '10 at 12:31
You could write an app that stops it: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376876(VS.85).aspx – Default Aug 31 '10 at 13:35
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You could write the application yourself, and catch the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message.
This program apparently stops a system from going to Sleep, but I don't think that would suffice.

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I will try it at least. – nbolton Sep 2 '10 at 13:04
@nbolton: sweet :) I think that the author of the Insomniac program made the source available, so you could study that as well. – Default Sep 2 '10 at 20:38
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