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Monday, June 28, 2010

Create shortcut to shutdown and reboot pc

To create a shortcut for shutdown or restart PC .

1. Right Click on desktop

2. Click on New

3. Click on shortcut

4. type in text box   as per  below shutdown with switches are :

Usage:

shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
No args        Display this message (same as -?)
-i        Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l        Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s        Shutdown the computer
-r        Shutdown and restart the computer
-a        Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername    Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx        Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment"    Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f        Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy        The reason code for the shutdown

u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)

Example:

1. shutdown -r -t00

[restart the pc without delay]

2. shutdown -s -t10

[ shutdown the pc after 10 seconds ]