http://simonthegeek.com/technical/shutdown-windows-from-the-command-line/ A diary of stupid things that really shouldn't interest you Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://simonthegeek.com/technical/shutdown-windows-from-the-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 mh Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:52:19 +0000 http://simonthegeek.com/?p=153#comment-1313 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!!!! 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!!!!

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