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    • Open Url/Webpage in Default WebBrowser – VB 5.0/6.0

    Saturday, April 19th, 2008

          I figured this would be very easy to do since VB has a Shell command built-in. But I would keep getting a File not Found message everytime I would try and open a web address. It would work for other tasks like shelling "shutdown -r -f -t 0" which is a process that [...]

    How to easily Shutdown, Restart, and Log Off the Computer without APIs (Update: Added VB 6.0 codes)

    Monday, August 20th, 2007

          IF you do not like using Microsofts API calls, but you still want to Shutdown, Restart, and/or Log Off a computer you can use some simple shell based code. This is a alternative method that does require the Windows Shutdown service to be active on the target computer to work. IT usually is running [...]