Shutdown Windows from the command line
I had an odd problem with an SBS 2003 box that just would not shutdown the other day. A quick bit of research taught me that it can be done from the command line, which I totally didn’t know (‘cos I’m an idiot):
I used – Shutdown /r /c “App slowdown” /t 5
The r switch makes it restart, the c is for the custom comment or reason for shutdown and the t is the time before shutdown in seconds.
There are loads of other switches you can use – take a look here for the full list.
Handy.
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August 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am
For anyone thinking of making some neat desktop buttons to give quick shutdown and restart access – test this very carefully. I did this and then discovered that using them meant that any changes to my user profile weren’t being saved. I don’t use the default “My Documents”, etc areas, etc, so I don’t know whether they would have been lost too, but any new desktop icons I create, etc were being lost when I used this command – another miscrosoft programming truimph!!!!