by BlackViper (1 Submission)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Tue 9th April 2002
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
The code Works under NT/XP to shutdown the system
VBcoders
UsedPart As Long
IgnoredForNowHigh32BitPart As Long
End Type
Private Type TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
PrivilegeCount As Long
TheLuid As LUID
Attributes As Long
End Type
Private Const EWX_SHUTDOWN As Long = 1
Private Const EWX_FORCE As Long = 4
Private Const EWX_REBOOT = 2
Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal _
dwOptions As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function OpenProcessToken Lib "advapi32" (ByVal _
ProcessHandle As Long, _
ByVal DesiredAccess As Long, TokenHandle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function LookupPrivilegeValue Lib "advapi32" _
Alias "LookupPrivilegeValueA" _
(ByVal lpSystemName As String, ByVal lpName As String, lpLuid _
As LUID) As Long
Private Declare Function AdjustTokenPrivileges Lib "advapi32" _
(ByVal TokenHandle As Long, _
ByVal DisableAllPrivileges As Long, NewState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES _
, ByVal BufferLength As Long, _
PreviousState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ReturnLength As Long) As Long
Private Sub AdjustToken()
Const TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = &H20
Const TOKEN_QUERY = &H8
Const SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = &H2
Dim hdlProcessHandle As Long
Dim hdlTokenHandle As Long
Dim tmpLuid As LUID
Dim tkp As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
Dim tkpNewButIgnored As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
Dim lBufferNeeded As Long
hdlProcessHandle = GetCurrentProcess()
OpenProcessToken hdlProcessHandle, (TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES Or _
TOKEN_QUERY), hdlTokenHandle
' Get the LUID for shutdown privilege.
LookupPrivilegeValue "", "SeShutdownPrivilege", tmpLuid
tkp.PrivilegeCount = 1 ' One privilege to set
tkp.TheLuid = tmpLuid
tkp.Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED
' Enable the shutdown privilege in the access token of this process.
AdjustTokenPrivileges hdlTokenHandle, False, _
tkp, Len(tkpNewButIgnored), tkpNewButIgnored, lBufferNeeded
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_Click()
AdjustToken
ExitWindowsEx (EWX_SHUTDOWN Or EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT), &HFFFF
End Sub