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by jay-jay

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How do I prevent Windows 95 from periodically not shutdown and hanging at the "Windows is shutting down" screen forcing a reboot or a shutdown of power. Subsequently the software must perform a repair on bootup because Windows was not shut down properly!?!?!?!?

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by lizzy

Add a shortcut to your desktop for the shutdown command line which will shut 95 down properly and quickly. the command line is:

C:\Windows\Rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

Create the new shortcut and place the above line in the Target box. Name the shortcut "ShutDown" and have your users use that instead of the Start, Shut Down menu.

by lizzy

Glad it helped. That was the only solution that we could come up with when clients refused to shut down after switching to Windows server only from MS and Novell. Microsoft was no help, but this command line can be found as a workaround in some oftheir articles. Best wishes to you.

by fenaikh

You can use the task shuduler and creating a batch wich use the folowing command which has option such as shutdow, or reboot, or log off ect 0,1, 2, 3, 6, 7

C:\Windows\Rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

To get the right paramters you need to go to MS KB at this site ans earch for rundll or exitwindows.I do not rember the article ID.

Good luck

Mohamed

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us

AutoShutdown

AutoShutdown is a Windows system shutdown/restart/logoff manager with many powerful capabilities. It allows quick, controlled shutdowns of single or networked PCs. The program can be set to perform an action at a specified time each day of the week (shutdown, restart, logoff users). It can also be configured to perform an action if a PC is inactive for a predefined period of time (ie no mouse or keyboard activity). AutoShutdown's other features include emptying the recycle bin and cleaning up temporary files, detecting remote access connections and the ability to shutdown network PCs for users running Windows NT.

http://www.barefootinc.com/autoshut.htm

WinKill 1.0
Shut down Windows immediately. Useful when your Windows crashes which is then unable to shut down.
http://www.ykwong.com/download.shtml

***Very Important NOTE *********
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