Extended Shutdown

Classes: XFldObject, XFldDesktop

One of the major features of &xwp; is to improve the shutdown procedure of &os2;.

Important note: &xshutdown; is disabled per default in order to avoid confusion. You will need to enable &xshutdown; in the new "&xwp; Setup" object.

After enabling &xshutdown;, selecting "Shutdown" from the Desktop's context menu will start &xwp;'s shutdown procedure instead of &os2;'s standard shutdown.

After selecting "Shutdown", a dialog box similar to the following will pop up:

The main new features of &xshutdown; are:

You can choose to automatically reboot your computer after shutdown has completed.
You may even create your own reboot options, e.g. reboot to a certain Boot Manager partition directly. This is explained in detail when you press the "Actions" button on page 1 of the "XDesktop" pages in the Desktop's settings notebook.
&xshutdown; can be cancelled even after shutdown has started.
&xshutdown; will display the progress of the shutdown procedure, and if some application "hangs", i.e. it cannot be closed, you can choose to skip it and continue the shutdown sequence without waiting for this application to close:

The automatic reboot requires that DOS.SYS be installed through &cfgsys;. On Warp 4, this is done per default. On OS/2 Warp 3, you might need to add the following line to &cfgsys;:

DEVICE=X:\OS2\BOOT\DOS.SYS

with X: being your OS/2 boot drive.

You can configure (and turn off) the eXtended Shutdown on a new settings page of the Desktop's Settings notebook.

If you're interested in how &xshutdown; works internally, please see the respective page in the "&xwp; Internals" chapter.