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Auto Shutdown with User Abort Capability

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by kristen

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I need to auto shutdown the computers at my business and know how to make a scheduled task that shuts the computer down without warning. I need the shutdown to advise a person that the computer will be shutdown in "x" amount of time and have them click a button if they would like to abort. Any thoughts on how I can do this? It sounds easy, yet I have not been able to figure out how to do it.

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by cmiller5400

Don't know of a way to do this with the shutdown utility supplied with XP. You can only initiate a shutdown, which then displays a message for x number of seconds then starts the shutdown. The only way to abort is to issue the "shutdown -a" command. One option is to tell them how to abort it or put a simple bat file on the desktop for them to run to abort the shutdown.

by nielson32

Use the following in the script

-s -t 120 -c "To stop this process, click 'start', 'run', and type 'shutdown -a' then press ok."

This will add the comment to the command and provide them the opportunity to quit the shutdown.

by shasca

nuttin here to see. move along (@) (@)

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