Switchin off hard drives

does anyone know of a way to switch off hard drives, like sleep mode in windows?

or does anyone know how to activate sleep mode fronm within a prog?

many thanks

deviousrich

Yeah!
SetSystemPowerState() does the thing...

Code:

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Private Const ANYSIZE_ARRAY = 1
Private Const TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = &H20
Private Const TOKEN_QUERY = &H8
Private Const SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = &H2
Private Type LUID
    LowPart As Long
    HighPart As Long
End Type
Private Type LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
    pLuid As LUID
    Attributes As Long
End Type
Private Type TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
    PrivilegeCount As Long
    Privileges(ANYSIZE_ARRAY) As LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
End Type
Private Declare Function SetSystemPowerState Lib "kernel32" (ByVal fSuspend As Long, ByVal fForce As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function OpenProcessToken Lib "advapi32" (ByVal ProcessHandle As Long, ByVal DesiredAccess As Long, TokenHandle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function LookupPrivilegeValue Lib "advapi32" Alias "LookupPrivilegeValueA" (ByVal lpSystemName As String, ByVal lpName As String, lpLuid As LUID) As Long
Private Declare Function AdjustTokenPrivileges Lib "advapi32" (ByVal TokenHandle As Long, ByVal DisableAllPrivileges As Long, NewState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ByVal BufferLength As Long, PreviousState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ReturnLength As Long) As Long
'set the shut down privilege for the current application
Private Sub EnableShutDown()
    Dim hProc As Long
    Dim hToken As Long
    Dim mLUID As LUID
    Dim mPriv As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
    Dim mNewPriv As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
    hProc = GetCurrentProcess()
    OpenProcessToken hProc, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES + TOKEN_QUERY, hToken
    LookupPrivilegeValue "", "SeShutdownPrivilege", mLUID
    mPriv.PrivilegeCount = 1
    mPriv.Privileges(0).Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED
    mPriv.Privileges(0).pLuid = mLUID
    ' enable shutdown privilege for the current application
    AdjustTokenPrivileges hToken, False, mPriv, 4 + (12 * mPriv.PrivilegeCount), mNewPriv, 4 + (12 * mNewPriv.PrivilegeCount)
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
    'KPD-Team 2001
    'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
    'E-Mail: [email protected]
    'enable the shutdown privilege
    EnableShutDown
    'on Windows2000: hybernate
    'on Windows9x/ME: suspend
    SetSystemPowerState False, False
End Sub

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