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| Shut down and restart remotely with Shutdown.exe |
| Troubleshooting often requires rebooting the computer. For example, many support professionals |
| know that the easiest solution to certain problems is to simply reboot the computer. And in some |
| cases, an errant application or service can cause systemwide problems that can only be fixed by a |
| reboot. What's more, you often need to reboot a computer after installing new software. |
| If you're troubleshooting a problem on a local computer, rebooting is easy. But when the computer |
| is a building or even a continent away, getting the computer to reboot isn't that simple. With |
| Windows 2000, you can reboot a computer through a handful of means, one of which is the |
| Shutdown.exe tool included with the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. You can use Shutdown.exe to |
| shut down the local computer as well as remote computers. |
| Shutdown.exe lets you specify a timer for the shutdown, with a default of 20 seconds. The tool can |
| optionally display a warning message of your choice, respond to any prompts with a "Yes" (such as |
| whether to save changes to open documents), or force applications to close without saving changes. |
| You can use the /a switch to abort a system shutdown within the timeout period specified by a |
| previous Shutdown.exe command. |
| You'll find additional information about Shutdown.exe in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools |
| Help file. Or, execute the command Shutdown.exe /? to view the command's syntax. |
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