Hi All

I usually play a movie in my PC before I sleep and as everyone i dont know when I sleep and till next day morning the movie keeps on looping.

I usually get scoldings for keeping the PC ON the whole night.

I decided to avoid scoldings and recently wrote a too small PERL script which would shutdown when i sleep ( although i know i can do it without PERL too using shutdown.exe - t XX but i want to run everything on PERL hereafter). The code goes something like this ... 

sleep 1800; # am sure to sleep in half an hour
system "c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown.exe -s";

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But I did find that the shutdown occurs without closing applications and during the next start Windows checks for errors quoting improper shutdown.

Actually I want to do something like -

1) Close the Windows Media Player which is running the video.

2)Then shutdown

I consulted me friend and he is telling that to close windows media player i need to track process id or pid , Is that necessary ?

Also how do i close other folders using perl and make a safe shutdown.

Regards

prad

2005-09-27 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'perl help while sleeping !'

In reply to Using Perl to shutdown windows by prad_intel

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