shut down command

[Garrett]

when i had windows ME, i found the command that shuts
down the computer.... it was:

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 9

This does not work for XP. Does anybody know the command
that will shut down the computer for XP?.

 

[John E. Carty]

when i had windows ME, i found the command that shuts
down the computer.... it was:

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 9

This does not work for XP. Does anybody know the command
that will shut down the computer for XP?.

You can use this: shutdown -s-t 0

For more info type shutdown /? from a command prompt

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

when i had windows ME, i found the command that shuts
down the computer.... it was:

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 9

This does not work for XP. Does anybody know the command
that will shut down the computer for XP?.

Hi

You could use the shutdown.exe that comes with WinXP, but it has a bad habit of
ending up in "It is now safe to turn of your computer" message when you do a
shutdown.

Two other solutions that does not have this problem:

A)
You can use a vbscript to do a shutdown:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

B)
PsShutdown.exe in the free PsTools suite
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml