Task Manager Shutdown Tab

[Guest]

In windows XP Pro,
I know that if you select the welcome screen (for logon) to be active you
get an extra tab on the task manager that is the shutdown tab. This tab has
sutdown, restart, log off and several other nice options on it. If you do not
use the welcome screen logon this tab does not appear. These two things (the
tab and the type of logon screen) dont really appear to have a connection
that would make them rely on each other.

My question is :
Is there a way to get the shutdown tab to be present on task manager without
using the welcome screen logon?

 

[Jason Tsang]

If FUS is enabled.... pressing Cont-Alt-Del doesn't bring up the old Windows
Security Dialog. So they added the shutdown options to the Task Manager.

there's your connection.

 

[Guest]

First of all this tab is not tied to fast user switching, it is tied to the
welcome screen option. And secondly this still begs the question: can the tab
be forced to be there? I find it very useful when using remote desktop
connection and I need to restart a pc. This is about the best way to restart
a pc remotely (that I know of).

 

[Jason Tsang]

If you are connected remotely with Remote Desktop Client, you can goto
Start, Windows Security and hit the shutdown options from there

 

[Mark]

Hi JB,

Provided the remote PC is running XP/2003 Server you may want to try the
SHUTDOWN command.

SHUTDOWN -r Restart the computer
SHUTDOWN -s Shut down the computer

Both of the above with give a 30 second countdown.
You can alther the length of the countdown with the -t option. EG
SHUTDOWN -r -t 60 will give a 1 minute countdown. "-t 0" causes an immediate
shutdown/restart.

You can even use it to remotely restart a computer (even if it's Windows
2000!):

SHUTDOWN -r -f -t 0 -m \\SOMECOMPUTER

You'll need admin rights on the remote machine for the previous command to
work though.

SHUTDOWN -i will give you a nice GUI interface but you'll need to be (I
think) a local administrator for that to work.

Use SHUTDOWN -? at the command prompt for more information.

Mark

 

[Mark]

Hi JB,

Provided the remote PC is running XP/2003 Server you may want to try the
SHUTDOWN command.

SHUTDOWN -r Restart the computer
SHUTDOWN -s Shut down the computer

Both of the above with give a 30 second countdown.
You can alther the length of the countdown with the -t option. EG
SHUTDOWN -r -t 60 will give a 1 minute countdown. "-t 0" causes an immediate
shutdown/restart.

You can even use it to remotely restart a computer (even if it's Windows
2000!):

SHUTDOWN -r -f -t 0 -m \\SOMECOMPUTER

You'll need admin rights on the remote machine for the previous command to
work though.

SHUTDOWN -i will give you a nice GUI interface but you'll need to be (I
think) a local administrator for that to work.

Use SHUTDOWN -? at the command prompt for more information.

Mark