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Exit windows from the CP
Gradius:
I'd like to exit windows 2000 from my CP, using one button or better a combination of two or three buttons. My CP is a psx pad hack connected via USB. I've thought I could use a program I have called af1shutdown, which exits windows when you double click the the program. I could associate a combination of keys to the shortcut to the program, but how to controls this from the control panel?
DaveMMR:
I dunno but wouldn't your computer shut down by accident a lot (unless you have a dedicated button for it) while just playing a game?
Gradius:
I would use a combination of one of the fir buttons + start. That's what I use as ui cancel in mame (for quiting emulation). I've been trying with joytokey and it seems to work. I assing for instance shift to one button, and F12 to the other. Then I create a shortcut to a program to exit windows called af1shutdown, and associate the combination of keys shift + F12. The problem is that I don't know if this will have side effects. I mean having joytokey running, and registering shift every time I hit the button during gameplay. Also, I have to test this: I also use the same combination of buttons in mame to exit emulation, so maybe it also tries to exit windows apart from quiting emulation, which would be a problem.
Minwah:
Many cabinet frontends allow the shutdown of the PC via button(s) or menus.
I'm not 100% sure which others do but I know MAMEWAH does, I bet Dragon King, 3D Arcade & Kymaera too...
You might find JoyToKey ( http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016823/joytokey/english.html ) helpful too :)
paigeoliver:
If you have buttons on your panel that are control and escape then they can be pressed together to pop up the start menu, and from there it is up enter enter.
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