One click shutdown

[Michael]

I was wondering if there waas a way to create a shortcut
to shutdown Windows2000, so you don't have to go to the
start menu and go through all that crap. I've done it
with my winXP computer, i'm just wondering if it's
possible for a win2000 machine i'm working on now.

Thanx for the help

 

[Michael Bednarek]

I was wondering if there waas a way to create a shortcut
to shutdown Windows2000, so you don't have to go to the
start menu and go through all that crap. I've done it
with my winXP computer, i'm just wondering if it's
possible for a win2000 machine i'm working on now.

(Yes, asking users to press the Start button to shut the PC down is very
intuitive, isn't it? (So is replacing "Profiles" with "Documents and
Settings".))

What makes you think that whatever you did under NT5.1 (XP) would not
work under NT5.0 (W2K); my first assumption is always that it will.

If not, what exactly did you do under NT 5.1 that you also want to do
under NT 5.0?

There are plenty of shutdown utilities, from Microsoft itself and
others.

 

[mike]

Yeah it is. I'm dealing with a bunch of people who have
like 0 computer skills. They probably don't know the
difference between a double click and 2 click.

Anyway, i don't remember what i did in XP. I haven't been
on my XP computer in a long time. I know it was some
little file you create in like notepad and had like 3
lines of code.

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Yeah it is. I'm dealing with a bunch of people who have
like 0 computer skills. They probably don't know the
difference between a double click and 2 click.

Anyway, i don't remember what i did in XP. I haven't been
on my XP computer in a long time. I know it was some
little file you create in like notepad and had like 3
lines of code.

Try this: from a command line, enter: shutdown -?
If you get the output below, create a shortcut on
the desktop and put something like "shutdown -s"
in it. You may have to experiment with the combination
of switches.

Usage: shutdown.exe [-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 [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)