win32com (VBScript to Python) problem

[Duncan Booth]

Tim Howarth <tim at worthy.demon.co.uk> wrote in 
news:4700e5564c.tim at worthy.demon.co.uk:

> In message <Xns943E7EB585A78duncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1>
>           Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Tim Howarth <tim at worthy.demon.co.uk> wrote in 
>> news:6e24de564c.tim at worthy.demon.co.uk:
>> 
>> > I want to use this to shutdown all machines in the school in which I
>> > work from a schedule on a server.
>>
>> This isn't a Python solution at all, but have you looked at PsTools 
>> (http://www.sysinternals.com)?
> 
> Yes, very handy tools.
> 
> It's just that I'd like to do the shutting down myself - why call
> pshutdown if I can call the shut down mechanism directly.
> 
> 
I would say because with the pstools version you get a message on screen 
telling the user that their system is going to shut down in 1 minute (or 
whatever) and giving them an opportunity to save their work. You might 
never need that, but it could save someone a lot of grief.


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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