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Adding a command to a shortcut?

by Walt H Oct 5, 2008 5:16AM PDT

Running Win Vista Home Premium SP1. Trying to create a shortcut to shutdown the computer.

Instructions: In the Create Shortcut dialog, "rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation"...this works for locking down the desktop.

Further instructions: "You can repeat this exact process to create shortcuts to shutdown. In order to create a shortcut to shutdown, you can use the following command: shutdown -s -t 01."

How would this be written for it to work?

Here's what I did...rundll32.exe user32.dll,ShutdownWorkStation /shutdown -s -t 01...this gives an error stating "missing entry: Shutdown".

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Just shutdown with the right parameters.
by Kees Bakker Oct 5, 2008 5:21AM PDT

Exactly what you wrote. Not rundll etc, just what you wrote and no more (not even the full stop after the 01).

http://itsvista.com/2007/03/shutdown/ tells you what the switches mean: shutdown after 1 second.

Kees

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(NT) Thanks, that did it.
by Walt H Oct 5, 2008 5:48AM PDT
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(NT) You're welcome.
by Kees Bakker Oct 5, 2008 5:49AM PDT
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Shutdown after 5 seconds and Restart?
by Walt H Oct 6, 2008 4:40AM PDT

Now I'm trying to create a command to shutdown after 5 seconds and restart.

shutdown.exe /r /t05 is not working for me. How do I do this?

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