Wednesday, December 31, 2008

44. Shutdown and Reboot in Style


Turning off or rebooting XP involves a several-step process: click the Start menu,choose Shut Down, and then select Shut Down or Restart. If you want, however, youcan exit or reboot much more quickly, by creating a shortcut that enables one-clickshutdowns. You can also use the shortcut to customize the shutdown or reboot forexample, by displaying a specific message or automatically shutting down anyprograms that are running.
First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking the desktop, choosing New,and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box askingfor the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, doubleclicking it will shut down your PC.
But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC.

You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:
shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC"
Double-clicking that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay anddisplay the message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a varietyof switches you can use to customize it.
Switches you can use with shutdown
Switch What it does-s Shuts down the PC.-l Logs off the current user.-t nn Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.
Switches you can use with shutdownSwitch What it does
-c "messagetext"Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximumof 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed inquotation marks.
-f Forces any running applications to shut down.
-r Reboots the PC.
Here are the ones I use for shutdowns and restarts:
Shutdown -s -t 03 -c "See you later!"
shutdown -r -t 03 -c "You can't get rid of me that quickly!"
You always have to turn from the CPU after running this command. (Same with ATand ATX powered machines.) If you want to turn down power of ATX machineautomatically, run the following commnd "c:\windows\system32\tsshutdn.exe 00 /POWERDOWN / DELAY:00" This is used to turn off a server.

Even though youdon't have networked computers attached to your computer, this works.

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