Few days ago I published on github a configuration/script able to be executed at boot/shutdown. Basically on Mac OS X you could/should use a System wide and per-user daemon/agent configuration file (plist) in conjunction with a bash script file. This is a sample of the plist file you could use: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <!DOCTYPE plist … Read more
There is a static class called SystemEvents that exposes this behaviour: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.systemevents.aspx However, it cannot differentiate between certain actions and doesn’t pause the OS process time-out guard. I used it once, but the default time-out as configured in the registry is a little short so will likely need increasing. To cut a long story short, … Read more
Attach an event handler method to the SystemEvents.SessionEnding event, and your handler method will be called each time the event is raised. Handling this event will allow you to cancel the pending log off or shut down, if you wish. (Although that doesn’t actually work like it sounds in current operating systems; for more information … Read more