How can my application determine when the system is shutting down?

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QuantumKid

I am currently developing a taskbar-icon based program
which normally has no open windows. I understand that
there is a Microsoft.Win32 event that is supposed to
notify the application, but this event fails to fire when
the computer is shut down. I have Windows XP. By not
knowing when the computer is shutting down, my
application stays in memeory when the computer tries to
shut down, so all proccesess except the app close. To
avoid this, you must manually close the program before
shutting down the computer. I hope that I can find a way
to make my program more user-friendly in this respect. I
would apprectate any information on this subject.
 
Hi QuantumKid,

Take a look at SystemEvents class declared in Microsoft.Win32 namespace.
It has events like SessionEnding, SessionEnded which you can catch and deal
with.
 
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