Hi Michael,
You want to look at the windows power management functions, in particular I
SetThreadExecutionState. MSDN link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373163(v=VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373163(v=VS.85).aspxciao,
Richard
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM,
Vista and above have a new set of APIs and messages for handling OS
shutdown, including a new API that can cancel shutdown. It's all native
stuff (see
http://www.codeguru.com/columns/kate/article.php/c12967/Handling-OS-Shut-Dow
n-in-Windows-Vista.htm) as far as I know, but easy to Interop to.