include how to tell if windows is trying to close the application or if the user is.

[Andrew]

Your post about Setting a Form to Be Invisible at Its Inception was very helpful to me although it lacked the answer to that question.

I have a program that can only be closed using the notify icon in the taskbar. The closed event is cancelled.

I need to use application.exit() there but only when windows is trying to close the app to restart the computer.

[Ramesh Praveen]

Maybe the Application.ApplicationExit will get called before your Closing event?

-Praveen

[Administrator]

This is what I had to do:
public static void ShuttingDown()
{
StackTrace Trace = new StackTrace(true);
if(Trace.FrameCount > 13)
{
if(Trace.GetFrame(14).GetMethod().Name=="WmSysCommand")
{
e.Cancel=true;
this.Visible=false;
}
}
}