Comments on: How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows 7 Computer

By: South Fl

South Fl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:25 +0000

I didn’t actually realise you could do this on windows computers could come in really useful!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:35:57 +0000

Misrosoft Vibe » Try /h that should do it.

By: Misrosoft Vibe

Misrosoft Vibe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:14:18 +0000

This is a nice thing but i don’t want to shutdown my PC, i just want to put it into the sleep or hibernate mode. So can you please suggest me the script for that instead of using shutdown.exe

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:02:44 +0000

reply to K.

Push the refresh button below that list

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:46:26 +0000

Drew » Yes try the /l switch. Place it where the arguments go. See screenshot above in the middle of the article where the /s is but just use /l

Good luck.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:28:59 +0000

Can you use this to just logoff? What would the command be?

By: K.

K. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:41:49 +0000

Hey there,
I think I pretty much followed you’re instructions but somehow I don’t get the task started. When I see the summary screen I click Finish but the task just won’t appear in the Active Tasks List. Where’s the magic button to tell my PC: “Yes I really really do want to shut you down!” …?

By: Shams

Shams — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:12:36 +0000

Thanks Bro. Helped me a lot.

By: Ls

Ls — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:12:39 +0000

dustinfox: you are awesome. thank you!

By: dustinfox

dustinfox — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:51:03 +0000

Actually, if you look at the screen shot above showing the shutdown options, it is a forward slash not a dash. So yes, you would include a /t90 if you wanted 90 seconds or a /t120 if you wanted 120 seconds.

Here is what mine looks like:
C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 90 /c “System will be shut down in 90 seconds. Please exit all programs”

By: Ls

Ls — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:54:12 +0000

dustinfox, thanks so much for the info. Do I specify the -t under ‘arguments’?

By: dustinfox

dustinfox — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:16 +0000

LS, Use the -t option to specify the number of seconds before shutdown (i.e. -t 60 -t 120 etc)

You can type shutdown -a at a command prompt at any time to abort the shutdown. The -a option means abort.

By: Ls

Ls — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:28:13 +0000

Hey, Bill. Is there any way to make it give a longer warning time than “less than a minute”? Sometimes it’s not enough time for me to save everything I’m working on or finish a conversation or whatever.

I also wish there was a way to abort it if I am working on something important and need to keep going. Once it notifies you, it doesn’t seem to affect it if I go into task scheduler and stop it.

By: kingskull

kingskull — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:56:04 +0000

Thank you so much for this great tutorial,

this work great when there is no programs need to be closed

sometimes programs lik MS Word or Adobe Photoshop need to be closed manualy because it will ask for saving the work or not before closing it. If I set my pc to be shutdowend a screen apeear to ask if I wish to force the computer to be shutdown or not

what I want to say is there a way to AUTO save and close programs and after that it will shutdown automaticly without losing the work?

thanks and sorry for my English

By: Tacori

Tacori — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:46:28 +0000

OMG, thanks for posting this. My Windows 7 froze up yesterday and I haven’t been able to shut it down. I will give this a try