Restart a windows 7 machine programmatically.

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Published on 2010-03-18T03:05:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 3:11 UTC
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I have a requirement to trigger a reboot on a windows7 machine programmatically. This is to support a scenario for customers where when they log out of an intenet kiosk machine the machine reboots. On XP this was achieved using WTSSystemShutdown but Im wondering if theres another way. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

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