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[al]

I wrote this script which checks my internet connection if I get disconnected it reboots windows. Problem is

[Chris]

On Windows 9x, I believe pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice aborts the windows session and reboots. All running processes cease to exist, so all unsaved changes to documents are lost, and any other cleanup is not done. However, any pending data in the cache is written to the disk, thus you probably shouldn't see "computer wasn't shut down properly" when you start up the next time.

So I think that way of shutting down is very extreme. There is also probably no way to automate shutting down that way, especially not the second control-alt-del.

Windows 9x sometimes has problems shutting down depending on what drivers or software is running. I've experienced this myself, in my case a bug involving mapped drives, for which fortunately there was a fix. You might consider trying to isolate which software or driver is preventing a clean/normal shutdown. If necessary, you could try getting one of the process utilities mentioned in the scripts & utilities forum. These can kill processes that don't have a window associated with them (you can use WinClose or WinKill on those that do).