Windows XP SP2 Shudown program

[fred]

Windows XP SP2, I am using the shutdown.exe program provided by Microsoft,
to shutdown and restart a PC in the morning, and have set up a shortcut to
it so I can just click it when I am ending my remote desktop connection. PC
doesn't always let me back in on remote desktop if I don't reboot it.

I use the command

shutdown -r -f

-r is shutdown and restart, -f is force running apps to close

now I am getting an error

The device is not ready

It also doesn't seem to want to run at scheduled time either.


Fred

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You might want to further look at why you are having a problem with Remote
Desktop as that should not be an ongoing problem. Beyond that take a look at
the free PsShutdown from SysIntenrals which seems to work better then
shutdown in some cases such as Scheduled Tasks. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html --- PsShutdown