Option Explicit
'Set Types
Public Type LUID
LowPart As Long
HighPart As Long
End Type
Public Type LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
pLuid As LUID
Attributes As Long
End Type
Public Type TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
PrivilegeCount As Long
Privileges(1) As LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
End Type
' Declare API functions.
Public Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Public Declare Function OpenProcessToken Lib "advapi32" (ByVal ProcessHandle As Long, _
ByVal DesiredAccess As Long, TokenHandle As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function LookupPrivilegeValue Lib "advapi32" Alias "LookupPrivilegeValueA" _
(ByVal lpSystemName As String, ByVal lpName As String, lpLuid As LUID) As Long
Public Declare Function AdjustTokenPrivileges Lib "advapi32" (ByVal TokenHandle As Long, _
ByVal DisableAllPrivileges As Long, NewState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ByVal BufferLength _
As Long, PreviousState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ReturnLength As Long) As Long
' Set Set ShutDown Privilege Constants
Public Const TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = &H20
Public Const TOKEN_QUERY = &H8
Public Const SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = &H2
Public Sub SetShutDownPrivilege()
Dim Phndl As Long, Thndl As Long
Dim MyLUID As LUID
Dim MyPriv As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, MyNewPriv As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
Phndl = GetCurrentProcess()
OpenProcessToken Phndl, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES Or TOKEN_QUERY, Thndl
LookupPrivilegeValue "", "SeShutdownPrivilege", MyLUID
MyPriv.PrivilegeCount = 1
MyPriv.Privileges(0).Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED
MyPriv.Privileges(0).pLuid = MyLUID
' Now to set shutdown privilege for my app
AdjustTokenPrivileges Thndl, False, MyPriv, 4 + (12 * MyPriv.PrivilegeCount), MyNewPriv, 4 + (12 * MyNewPriv.PrivilegeCount)
End Sub