> I'm trying to run a shutdown script via group policy on Win2K
> Pro. When I do a graceful shutdown (i.e. Start | Shutdown |
> Shutdown), everything works great. But when a non-graceful
> shutdown occurs (i.e. someone hitting the power), Windows
> attempts a graceful shutdown of sorts, but the shutdown
> scripts don't run. I would expect a BSOD or other crash from
> running the shutdown scripts. I'm not finding anything from
> Microsoft indicating if this behavior is by design or a bug.
> Does anyone else have any insight on this?
I've always assumed that when you forcibly shutdown a box running
Windows, it uses that four second delay before power-off to desperately
write as much paged/cache data back to disk as it can.
I believe this is so because that particular shutdown sequence is much
more graceful compared to your normal shutdown sequence.
That button-press is a soft-off motherboard shutdown, so it's not
surprising that when Windows detects that power-off it desperately
writes data.
If anyone has any facts, or other theories though let me know :-)
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