On my Win 98 machine, I have created two icons on my
desktop to start the Shutdown and Restart procedures. I
would like to create similar icons under Win XP, but don't
know how.
Under Win 98, I wrote a "bat" file for Restart that had one
item in it: "@EXIT". For the Shutdown function I created
a shortcut with the path:
"C:\Windows\Rundll.exe\ User,Exitwindows".
Is there something similar I can write for Win XP??

Hi,

You can create shortcuts with the following commands:

For Shutdwn:

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

For restart:

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

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"SidBord" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3cfd01c42a43$9c8bce80$(E-Mail Removed)...
> On my Win 98 machine, I have created two icons on my
> desktop to start the Shutdown and Restart procedures. I
> would like to create similar icons under Win XP, but don't
> know how.
> Under Win 98, I wrote a "bat" file for Restart that had one
> item in it: "@EXIT". For the Shutdown function I created
> a shortcut with the path:
> "C:\Windows\Rundll.exe\ User,Exitwindows".
> Is there something similar I can write for Win XP??

This is what I have on my Desktop and use every day.

I have two shortcuts.

REBOOT
%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

SHUTDOWN
%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In news:3cfd01c42a43$9c8bce80$(E-Mail Removed),
SidBord <(E-Mail Removed)> hunted and pecked:
> On my Win 98 machine, I have created two icons on my
> desktop to start the Shutdown and Restart procedures. I
> would like to create similar icons under Win XP, but don't
> know how.
> Under Win 98, I wrote a "bat" file for Restart that had one
> item in it: "@EXIT". For the Shutdown function I created
> a shortcut with the path:
> "C:\Windows\Rundll.exe\ User,Exitwindows".
> Is there something similar I can write for Win XP??

Thanx guys . . . I'll try it
>-----Original Message-----
>This is what I have on my Desktop and use every day.
>
>I have two shortcuts.
>
>REBOOT
>%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00
>
>SHUTDOWN
>%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00
>
>--
>Hope this helps. Let us know.
>Wes
>
>In news:3cfd01c42a43$9c8bce80$(E-Mail Removed),
>SidBord <(E-Mail Removed)> hunted and
pecked:
>> On my Win 98 machine, I have created two icons on my
>> desktop to start the Shutdown and Restart procedures. I
>> would like to create similar icons under Win XP, but don't
>> know how.
>> Under Win 98, I wrote a "bat" file for Restart that had one
>> item in it: "@EXIT". For the Shutdown function I created
>> a shortcut with the path:
>> "C:\Windows\Rundll.exe\ User,Exitwindows".
>> Is there something similar I can write for Win XP??
>.
>