Well, it doesn't work in this raw form - I'll have to investigate how to modify the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege.

>>I could have sworn I saw a KB article around here on how to force an NT system to shut down and restart.
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>>I have an application that runs 24x7, and I'm experiencing odd troubles with it. I suspect a memory leak, and I just want to have the app shut down and restart WinNT every morning at 3:00 or something.
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>>Other apps will be running, but I suspect they will respond to the Windows shutdown message.
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>Hi Michael,
>
>I don't know if this'll do it on NT, but try the following:

>#DEFINE EWX_REBOOT   2
>DECLARE SHORT ExitWindowsEx IN Win32API;
>  SHORT uFlags, INTEGER dwReserved
>= ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT, 0)

>According to the documentation on NT, "The calling process must have the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege....To shut down or restart the system, the calling process must use the AdjustTokenPrivileges function to enable the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege."
>
>hth,