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I got 0x80070422 error on startup. Probably because I run IdleShutdown v2.0.0 Alpha on Windows 10 Home and the Windows Update service is disabled.

Hi,

I've been trying to set this up as a scheduled task to shutdown all PC's on our network at a certain time. There are 2 scenarios in the Task Scheduler:

1. "Run whether the user is logged on or not" - PC's at the login screen shutdown without warning, which is perfectly fine but PC's which are logged in and being used also shutdown without warning.
2. "Run only when user is logged on" - Users who are logged in have the option to postpone or abort the shutdown, but PC's at the login screen do not shutdown.

I don't know why the dialog box does not pop up when I set it to scenario 1. Is this a Microsoft issue or something which can be fixed?

With the implementation of persistent as in #1, a NamedPipeServerStream was introduced. This runs on a background thread. The background thread is not cleanly exited - the finally is never called, neither directly nor using statement.

This is largely a non-issue in normal operation: Windows should automatically dispose of the handle when the process ends, and the server program should not be exited until shutdown anyway.

Still would be nice to fix. Perhaps a Thread.Interrupt will do to kick it out of the WaitForConnection()?

Where two processes are started in quick succession without a persistent instance available, a race condition is possible where one (A) holds the mutex (very briefly) while the other (B) attempts to take it. B will proceed to send a message even though no persistent instance exists.

This race condition is exceptionally rare. And I'm not entirely sure how to fix it.