[DataBase]

Hello all i havent asked a question for a while so i thought i should get some help with something. I want to make a program using Visual Basic 6, the program should load up at windows start up, this i ok as i have found out how to write to the appropriate place in the registry to achive this. BUT when the user starts to shut down the computer i want my program to detect this event and do something, basically i have to make something that tells the user some facts about their computer usage eg how long they were on it and stuff like that. when they shut down i ant my program to know this is happening and display a message. how came i detect windows shutdown please, is this possible?

Thank you

[coderitr]

The only way that I can think of to do that is to detect the shutdown of that program. You can put the code in the Form_Terminate event and when Windows closes the program in preparation for a system shutdown, display the information that you want. The only problem with this is that Windows may think that your application is hung and display a "this program has not responded to the end task command" message.

If you figure out another way to do this, I'd like to know about it too.

[DataBase]

Well i dont really know of any other ways of testing this condition, but your way works brilliantly. On computing.net i asked the same question and someone said the same a you did but using the QueryUnload event, i used it to test the computer shutdown thus

Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer)
if UnloadMode = 2 then
blah blah blah
end if
End Sub

the 2 indicates the computer causing the shutdown rather than the user exiting the program.

its cool, thankyou for your help

[coderitr]

No problem -- I have a similar situation with a vendor's code hanging the shutdown on NT. I had to write code for them to wait for the startup of the SQL Server service before launching their daemon process and it doesn't shut down without using task manager or the "this program has not responded ..." popup. The senior developer at the vendor site suggested that I write something to detect the NT shutdown and stop his process when it occured. Seems to me that I shouldn't have to do that but oh well.