Restart Windows from within, resource garbage collection

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2 total messages Started by Jin Tonic Li Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:47

#497

Author: Jin Tonic Li
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:47

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1. How do I restart Windows in a Windows application that is currently running?
   The control panel can do this when the virtual memory size is changed.


2. Is there a way to clean up dangling resources, e.g. GDI, that are left behind
   by other tasks?  Windows' own screen saver always hogs resources this way.


Thank you in advance,

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Re: Restart Windows from within, resource garbage collection

#499

Author: Christoph Mueller
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 21:38

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jinli@dgp.toronto.edu (Jin Tonic Li) writes:

>
> 1. How do I restart Windows in a Windows application that is currently runnin
>    The control panel can do this when the virtual memory size is changed.
>
Try out
ExitWindows (EW_REBOOTSYSTEM, 0)    to terminate Windows and reboot
ExitWindows (EW_RESTARTWINDOWS, 0)  to terminate and restart Windows

As far as I know, in Windows 3.0 those were undocumented features, the
value of EW_RESTARTWINDOWS is 66 (0x42).

As I just saw in the manual (3.1 but it says that the function is from Win 3.0)
was this function  ExitWindowsExec  which can be used to exit windows, run
an MS-DOS program and restart Windows again.  Just in case the above is not
enough.

>
> 2. Is there a way to clean up dangling resources, e.g. GDI, that are left beh
>    by other tasks?  Windows' own screen saver always hogs resources this way.
>

The only way definite way to do this which I know of is the above: exit and
restart windows.  Does anybody know better ways?

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