Using Rundll.exe and user.exe to shutdow

To exit the desktop (actually this will restart the GUI too) you can use:

rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec

To find out 'funny' commands you can make a copy of user.exe, open it with Word and take a look at the recoognizable text. Most of the available commands don't make any sense when called from a shortcut. Also, in the Platform SDK documentation available online (after registration) at the MSDN library http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.htmyou should find more documentation about the commands in user.exe, kernel.exe and gdi.exe although the names for calling the functions from the SDK and calling them directly may have some differences.

rundll.exe does just what its name says it runs a dll (user.exe is a dll 'disguised' as an exe)

Happy hacking...

The commands are (case and space sensitive):

To shutdown:
rundll32.exe user.exe,exitwindows

To restart:
rundll32.exe user.exe,restartwindows

You can find a list of known commands at http://www.mvps.org/vb/.

'Y'all' immediately identifies one as being from the southeastern United States, a.k.a. as a 'Southerner'. Southerners long ago realized the confusion caused by having the same word ('you') serve as both second-person singular and plural and use this handy contraction ('you all') instead.

Other parts of the U.S. have implemented multiple-word phrases for the second person plural, include the clearly less sophisticated 'youse guys'.