Hi there -

this is another desklet for AveDesk I'm working on.It can shut down/log off/restart/send your computer to sleep on a single click by starting the XP-built-in shutdown.exe!

HOW TO USE:
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Rename POXP.zip into POXP.aveinst and doubleclick it while AveDesk is running - That's it:
By pressing one of the 4 arrows on the button the program starts. Hovering over them will show you what they do (Used Mouse Move controller).

(However the built-in applicaton isn't too powerful:As far as I know it will really power off your computer only if your motherboard supports it)


TIP:
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I myself don't use the built-in shutdown.exe, I'm using PowerOff 3 - a free program available at
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/...
which will really power off your beloved one ;O) and has got a lot more options.
THIS SHOULD ALSO WORK ON NON-XP MACHINES!

Like the shutdown.exe it can be controlled by command lines and therefore is easy to integrate in the desklet.


HOW IT WORKS (If you want/have to change settings):
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Right click the desklet, press "Configure..." and go to the tab "Controllers". There are 4 shortcut controllers called "Shutdown", "Sleep", "Restart" and "LogOff".

If you want, you can change their settings by marking them and pressing "configure".

They all point to "C:WINDOWSsystem32shutdown.exe".
In the argument field you'll find the extensions telling XP what to do:
-s will shutdown your computer ("Shutdown")
-s -t 300 will shutdown your computer after a delay of 300 seconds ("Sleep") - you can change the time delay to whatever value you like in seconds.
-r will restart your computer ("Restart")
-l is for logging off ("LogOff")-i opens a shutdown dialog (not the one you normally get with XP)

There are more options available for the XP-built-in application - open a command line (prompt) and type "shutdown /?" for details.


ISSUES:
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If you didn't install Windows on C: (it is possible!), you have to change the Path of the 4 shortcut controllers to point to your shutdown.exe...

- If nothing seems to happen, either the Path is wrong or your computer just needs some time to shutdown - there won't be any confirmation dialog or similar that shows you the program started! You can check however by setting one of the arguments to -i. A dialog should show up at once...

- If you don't like the "sunken in" look of the desklet, right click it, choose "Configure..." and go to "Overlays". By marking "Emboss", unckecking the field "Visible" and then marking "Shadow", checking "Visible" you can give it a "hovering over the desktop" look.

- If you wonder about the small buttons that can be seen in the preview when installing - I want to include a skin without the "Mouse Move" controller in future:I myself have problems with it on older (well, very old) machines. This might be based on having problems with AveDesk at all on these machines...

- If you want to use "PowerOff 3" like me (or a similar program controlled by command lines), all you have to do is to change the path and arguments of the 4 shortcut controllers mentioned above:"....poweroff.exe" with arguments "shutdown -..." depending on what you want to do - there is a documentation included with the program, there are quite a lot of options...

All this you can also find in the readme-file included...

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