Force Restart or launch external application
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 by frasej | Discussion: DesktopX
I need to know how to do a system restart, or at least, launch an external program.
frasej
Reply #2 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:45 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:45 PM
Thanks. I'm really new to this. I know a lot of VBScript, but the system hooks are foreign to me. How do I launch a bat file from within my script?
frasej
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:41 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:41 PM
Okay, I figured out how to launch a program. Now I'm getting "A required privilege is not held by the client."
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:29 PM
On Error Resume Next
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:
{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" &
strServer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
ObjOperatingSystem.Win32Shutdown
(6)'(6) is a forced reboot
Next
Set objWMIService = nothing
Set colOperatingSystems = nothing
End Sub
Another option is to create a batch file that has the text shutdown.exe -f -r