Christopher Greaves

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Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:29 AM

Shutdown Or Restart?

If you have run the BackUp.BAT job by now you might be frustrated with the Shutdown command.

Good news!

The command can also effect a re-boot of the system.

More Good news: We can implement a delay, giving us time to interrupt, and hence inhibit, the shutdown or reboot.

ShutDown.exe -s -f -t 00

Above is the “instant forced shutdown” command taken from our batch file ShutDown.BAT

ShutDown.exe -s -f -t 30

Above you will see a simple modification that will make the command wait 30 seconds before shutting down. This gives you enough time to interrupt the process.

(You can use Ctrl-Break, followed by Enter; then tap the letter “Y” and the Enter key).

ShutDown.exe -r  -t 30

Above you see the ShutDown.exe command being used to restart the system, again with a 30-second delay.

You can learn more about the ShutDown.exe command at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

I have re-written my ShutDown.bat to look like this:

Title %0 - Shut down the computer system
ShutDown.exe -r -t 30
REM END

At Long Last! A Working Version!

Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:29 AM