Let us start here, from square one. No, from Zero!

launcher/shutdown.h

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+#pragma once
+
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+namespace launcher {
+    void stop_subsystems();
+    void kill(UINT exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE);
+    void shutdown(UINT exit_code = EXIT_SUCCESS);
+    void restart();
+}