Replace shutdown with a forceful shutdown?

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yerk55

Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you
choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)
to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you
cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...
this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont
care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.
All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than
trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just
want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,
Shutdown" method.

Thanks
 
yerk55 said:
Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you
choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)
to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you
cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...
this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont
care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.
All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than
trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just
want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,
Shutdown" method.

Thanks
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Maybe creating a desktop shortcut would
work for you...see the following article:

Shutdown XP using your keyboard
http://www.tweakxp.com/article36999.aspx

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yerk55 said:
Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you
choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)
to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you
cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...
this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont
care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.
All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than
trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just
want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,
Shutdown" method.

Thanks
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Yes - by making them use a shortcut that executes shutdown.exe. On the other
hand you cannot modify the inbuilt shutdown process.
 
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