Monday, 14 March 2011

How to SHUTDOWN your PC in different methods



METHOD  1: (DESKTOP)
1. Right click on your desktop and choose "New=>shortcuts".
2. In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut",
3. Type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" without the quotation marks and click next.

 Note:3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , 60secs*60mins=3600secs.
4. Make up a name for the shortcut and you're done.

TO ABORT:
   To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make the "location of the shortcut" to " shutdown -a" without the quotes.

 METHOD 2: (RUN)
   Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 12:00am. Type this in..
   start=>Run
   Type Code: at 12:00 shutdown –s

TO ABORT:
   Code:shutdown –a


METHOD 3: ( BATCH FILE)
To create a batch file for this you can use notepad, and save the file as ( .bat )
Here are the most used batch files for shutdown:
1. SHUTDOWN : shutdown -s
2. RESTART : shutdown -r
3. FORCEDOWN : shutdown -f
4. LOGOFF : shutdown -l

5. Specify Time : shutdown -s -t 60
6. Give Us Some Info : shutdown -s -t 120 -c "I shut u down foo!"

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