need to control softpower on/off switch

[der joep]

Hi: trying to implement custom menu system, and turn cpu off programmatically by accessing soft power on/off using labview, any Ideas?

[JeremyB]

If you mean from your question you are looking to programmatically shut down Windows from within LabVIEW, it is possible to do this using functions found in the LabVIEW Windows API Function Utilities - see following link:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/explprog.nsf/6c163603265406328625682a006ed37d/ebf11dd1f0feaef3862566790072a983?OpenDocument

Jeremy

There is a VI inside this library that will allow you to shutdown the operating system