Poll: Which Windows XP/Vista shutdown option do you most often use?

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I use that too

reisen55@... 29th Jun 2009

Call it "down.bat"
shutdown -s -f -t 20

And I also use it as a scheduled action so I DO NOT NEED to worry about shutting down and, secondly, I run that after a late evening backup of primary data to a redundant system is run, so I do not have to worry.

Works great, too, if you are on vacation.

Dell systems in particular allow you to automatically turn ON at a specific time and day, plus if you eliminate the login CTL-ALT-DEL requirement, everything becomes automatic indeed.

START, RUN
CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2

Allows you to change that.

So your systems become entirely automatic.

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I use a Batch file

Vineet369 28th Jun 2009

I create a batch file with the shutdown command, and put it on the desktop.
Then whenever I need to shutdown I just double click the file.
Seems a lot easy then using start menu.

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Agree

reisen55@... 24th Jun 2009

And I had some snotty tech from Japan chase after me, telling me to always do a manual shutdown at the end of the day. Shutdown is a great, little advertised command.

shutdown -s -f -t 20 is great
and -r gives you a reboot.

Works on servers too.

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