I don't normally reply to my own messages, but I just had a chance to
play with restart.com, and it appears to only be able to force a system
restart when you're in MS-DOS mode. If Windows is running, restart.com
seems to simply exit quietly without doing anything. If so, this
obviously is not the solution you were looking for. I'm sorry for the
incomplete information I posted earlier.

Jeff Delzer


Jeffrey Delzer wrote:
>
> John O Wilson wrote:
> >
> > A while back, someone offered the information below to allow an icon (or
> > program, for that matter) to shut down Windows.  I believe someone else
> > asked if there was a similar command to allow a restart, but I don't
> > think anyone responded.  Anyone happen to know?
>
> There's a small program called restart.com inside ebd.cab, located in
> C:\Windows\Command\Ebd on my Windows98 system. When you make an
> Emergency Boot Disk, ebd.cab is expanded so its files can be placed on
> that floppy. I haven't tried it, but I strongly suspect that restart.com
> could be called with a hotkey or shortcut for those times when you want
> to do a quick restart. I have no idea if it's capable of gracefully
> shutting down any running applications, so experiment at your own risk
> and please let the list know what you find so we can all benefit.

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