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I have a Windows 2003 Server as VirtualBox guest.

Once I try to shutdown the system via the "ACPI shutdown", everything works fine only if one console session is active or if there are no users logged on (I already managed to solve this issue, as explained in a previous post). If more then one user is logged on, I get an annoying warning "Other people are logged on to this computer. Shutting down windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to continue shutting down?".

Since VM shutdown should be triggered by host machine shutdown by programmatically "pressing" the "ACPI Shutdown" function of VirtualBox, this warning blocking the VM shutdown sequence is very harmful to me. Any hint how to disable it?

What about just looking for it on Google? Everyone will have the same issue on a bare hardware install of Windows. 'Cause all it does, is send the shutdown signal, where you then state in Windows what it should do. In this case, shut down. And it's always the same shutdown command. If you want to stop the VM and resume it later, use "Save State" instead.

Use the shutdown.exe CLI tool with a remote user who is a member of the shutdown group(policy setting), then net use to a printer port, send shutdown signal. Done, time for pizza and such.

Or you could just turn off the notifier on the 2003 server.

start->run->gpedit.msc Click OK. Go to Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System Select Display Shutdown Event Tracker and disable it:

Sorry for the big delay, thank you to everyone and expecially to Perryg as this is exactly the setting I was looking for.