Question : Notification of Windows Shutdown

I have a service and I need to know if it is being shutdown because the system is shutting down, or just because it has been stopped.

Any ideas out there? Is there any way to see if windows itself is shutting down?

Cheers,
Fred

Answer : Notification of Windows Shutdown

You can already do both.  Your service already should be capable of receiving and processing things like stop requests (SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP) from the Service Control Manager.  This should have been set in the dwControlsAccepted member of the SERVICE_STATUS structure you passed to the SCM.  To get Windows shutdown notifications you can also use SERVICE_ACCEPT_SHUTDOWN.  This will provide your service with a shutdown notification.  You then just need to add a SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN case in your handler function to do whatever you need to do.