DOS Shutdown

If you are not in a DOS Prompt window, you can just turn off the system. If you have started Windows and gone into a DOS Prompt window, enter EXIT on the command line and you will go back to Windows.

If you are booting to DOS, then you only need to shutdown /power off your system. DOS does not have a shutdown command like unix.

You could download DOS utilities for rebooting your computer... http://www.jimprice.com/jim-soft.htm

The DOS restart command is the good old 3 finger sallute, Alt-Ctrl-Del.

When DOS was written, there was no such thing as an ATX motherboard.
All PCs back then were XT and AT style, and had a true on/off switch.

You can set the power management options in BIOS settings to allow you to shut down the PC by holding in the power switch.

Chas

If you booted to dos, to restart hit ctrl+alt+delete.

if you exit out to dos you can type win /wx
thats with a space between n and /

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