Run program on shutdown

[PeterMinin]

I tried to set a program to run on shutdown, but both solutions found in the Internet are for Win XP, so in Win7 they failed: placing shortcuts to Start Menu > Programs > Shutdown or using gpedit.msc (it's just not present, as soon as I can see). I also tried using the Task Scheduler but I don't know how to set the shutdown event. Any guesses?

 

[WindowsStar]

What version of Windows 7 are you using?

 

[richc46]

I tried to set a program to run on shutdown, but both solutions found in the Internet are for Win XP, so in Win7 they failed: placing shortcuts to Start Menu > Programs > Shutdown or using gpedit.msc (it's just not present, as soon as I can see). I also tried using the Task Scheduler but I don't know how to set the shutdown event. Any guesses?

Does this help?




How To Automatically Shutdown Your Windows Vista Computer

 

[seekermeister]

How about a batch file to run the program, which includes a shutdown switch?

 

[PeterMinin]

WindowsStar, Windows 7 Home Premium.
richc46, no, this won't help)
seekermeister, do you mean always shutting down with this batch file? I've already thought about replacing shutdown.exe with my own, which will first do all that I want and then run the original .exe, but it's the last thing I'll try if everything else fails.

 

[seekermeister]

I have no idea if totally replacing the shutdown.exe would be the right answer for you, because I don't know what purpose that you want to serve, but from the tone of your post, it seems apparent that you want to retain a choice. If that be the case, the batch file could just be a standalone option. Either it, or the normal means of shutdown could be available.

 

[seekermeister]

If you want to try out the batch file idea, and if like me, you don't know much about programming, Batchrun might be useful:

Batchrun Free Download

I've not used it before, but this converter might make it more useful also:

Bat To Exe Converter Free Download

 

[PeterMinin]

The purpose is making a patch that would turn off NumLock at shutdown because the led keeps lighting after power-off. But now I found a strange thing: if I manually turn NumLock off and press Shutdown, after logging off the led lights again. It seems that even if I find a way to turn if off in my session, it will be no use, so I have to find the cause of this lighting. I've read suggestions about a BIOS option of keyboard power-on, but it's already turned off, so I guess the cause is in some Windows setting. It's kind of off-topic but this is the actual problem.

 

[seekermeister]

Yes, it does the same thing on mine, but I fail to see the problem. Outside of simply dealing with an annoyance, is there an operational reason that the LED is a problem? I don't know why the LEDs flash on shutdown, but I assume that when they do this on startup that it has to do with detection procedures. Maybe there is some obscure reason that this is necessary on shutdown also...I don't know.

 

[PeterMinin]

No, there is nothing but annoyance in it.
You say that your LEDs flash on shutdown, but mine stay on while the computer is off, so it's a bit more annoying If I plug the keyboard off and on again while the computer is off, the LEDs flash and turn off as they should, but it isn't much a solution

 

[seekermeister]

To be honest, I have no idea if the LEDs remain lit after shutdown, because my PC is rarely turned off, and when it is, I'm generally too busy with whatever I'm trying to accomplish to pay any attention to them. As long as something is normal and doesn't physically interfere with other functions, I generally let the PC do what it wants. I would think that you have better things to do with the PC shutdown than to stare at the LEDs.

 

[PeterMinin]

OK, I see Thanks anyway

 

[Frostmourne]

In the back of my motherboard manual it actually says that the lights may still remain on - in my BIOS there is an option to disable Num Lock before booting but it turns on in Windows. This might be related to your PSU still supplying juice to your keyboard.

 

[Zittergie]

Did someone have a solution to run a program on exit?

I would like to send a power off to the virtual machine running.
I have a .bat file that does just what I want, by I would like that the .bat file runs when shutdown is choosen.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

 

[seekermeister]

See if this will work:

Run program on shutdown

 

[Zittergie]

@seekermeister: Unfortunate this does not work on Windows7 (Home), thanks anyway

I found this: Run on shutdown any app's. Software executes any tasks just before end of your windows session. but the free-version, is not free and it does not work very fine with Windows7