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Found this shutdown shortcut on PC Magazine, got the shortcut to work but the default timer is set at 30 seconds. The second part gives directions to set timer for shutdown, but I've tried everway and cannot get it to work. Maybe you cannot change default timer? If anybody can figure it let me know. Thanks. Ronnie
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,807899,00.asp
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On a single line, copy and paste in your reply what you put in your run command of your shortcut for others to comment on.
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Robert: After the -s I tried -t-10 with and without space and with and without hyphen, couldn't get timer to change per the article. Tried suggestion from fjb and that wouldn't work either, got message The file shortcut.exe-f-s-t cannot be found, I did have the 00 behind the t and still wont work. Any other ideas?
Ronnie
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s
right click an open area on the desktop and choose New Shortcut. put this in the open space
Shortcut.exe-f-s-t 00 then rename it.
fjb: Finally got it, must have been doing something wrong first time, works good, thanks. Ronnie
if you typed in as fjb said, you get an error message?
so what DID you type in that it now works?
jonah: Right click desktop/new/shortcut, type Shutdown -s -t 01 in the command box, then next and I just left the name shortcut there and thats what I got to work, it looks like this in properties in the target window. Notice spaces between switches. Ronnie
%windir%\System32\Shutdown.exe -s -t 01
You can replace the s with an r to get a restart instead of a shutdown. I noticed that there was a -f in the original post was that a typo? I have not seen that before.
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