Command to Call 'Turn Off Computer' Menu

Question

I remember there is (or was) a command involving rundll32 that calls Windows XP's 'Turn Off Computer' menu – the one that can also be invoked by going to Start Menu > Turn Off Computer.

Does anyone happen to know/remember what the command is?

P.S.: I'm not talking about the 'shutdown' command.

Final edit: Well, the closest command to get this result with rundll32 is the following:

rundll32 msgina.dll,ShellShutdownDialog

But note that you'll get the 'classic' menu/dialog instead of the modern, 'themed' version. You can get the latter using a VBScript one-liner posted by techie007 below.

Answer 1

As others have rightfully pointed out, those commands don't work and/or shouldn't be used.

Here's an option, you can use scripting to call that shutdown dialog/menu (it just pops up the shutdown menu; it doesn't select any action). Here's a couple basics to get you started:

VBS:

CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShutdownWindows

Save as Something.vbs and run it with cscript Something.vbs.

PowerShell:

(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).ShutdownWindows();

You can get PowerShell 2.0 for XP (etc.) from MS here (KB968930).

These should work on all versions of XP and up (the VBS may work on Windows 2000 as well). I tested them on Windows 7 (Ultimate) and they worked.

Answer 2

Before XP, there was a command, rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1. It use to still work in XP. It doesn't work in my XP VM though. . .

Starting with XP, Microsoft includes the shutdown command, which does exactly what you want, and more. It works with remote computers, etc etc.

Edit:

There is the more popular Lock Computer command that a lot of ppl don't know about.

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

edit:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/15/58973.aspx

Aparently, the above is a no no. So looks like we are stuck with PsShutdown.

Answer 3

Again, as in my comments, I believe that has been superseded primarily by the shutdown command, which you clearly know about.

If you would like alternatives, try these:

shutdown -i (to make it interactive, although not the screen you wanted)

WMIC OS Where Primary=TRUE Call Shutdown (I tested this, works 100%)

WMIC OS Where Primary=TRUE Call Reboot

Not sure if WMIC is on XP Home though.

Answer 4

Well if you have focus on the desktop and you hit ALT+F4 that should invoke the 'Turn Off Computer' menu.