Comments on: Restart or Shutdown Windows (XP, 2000 and Vista) from Command Line or One-Click Shortcut

By: sai sandeep

sai sandeep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:05:47 +0000

I have created the short cut icon for shut down but it is showing that “The file shut down could not be found.” What is the reason for this?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:00:47 +0000

It does work in vista you have to use / when using the command prompt. But if you follow instructions for the shortcut it does work.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Worked like a charm in Vista with the “-” or “/” operators.

By: laxman

laxman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:17:25 +0000

“shutdown -s -t 01″ Here “01″ Means time for shutdown in no. of Seconds.

ex: c:/shutdown -s -t 01

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:33:53 +0000

Works a treat in XP. I now have a great little system that reboots if a crash occurs in any of my apps. Thanks

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:06:42 +0000

I do not get why should the -t argument is reduced to 600 seconds in Vista. Please give us a workaround

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By: TVD

TVD — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:57:22 +0000

The Restart shortcut provided above worked just fine for me in Vista. Haven’t tested the Shutdown command yet. I appreciate the post, as there was no way I could guide my parents to find the commands on the new Start menu. I just stuck the shortcuts on the desktop. Problem solved.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:22:11 +0000

That command doesn’t do anything for standby or hibernate.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:53:54 +0000

The argument /t was reduced to 600 seconds already in XP64, and that is anoying *argh* Please post a reply if you now how to circumvent this. Thx.

By: Magudamudi

Magudamudi — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:21:36 +0000

give dos commands for shut downing the windows 2000, xp

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:40:53 +0000

What is the ‘Windows 2000 Resource Kit’ referred to in the article and where can I get it? I thought the obvious choice would be the Windows Components add/remove screen, but it is not there.

By: Soeren

Soeren — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:25:06 +0000

This does not work on Windows Vista. In Vista you have to use / and not – in front of the arguments. Also the /t argument has been limited to 600 seconds max.