The Windows Fix

Have you ever needed to automate the restart or shutdown process?   Some situations that stick out in my mind are deploying Windows Updates to a system(which almost always require a reboot) and you don’t want to reboot the PC or server during critical business hours.  Well you can setup your system to automatically reboot or shutdown with built-in Windows commands and the built-in task scheduler.

You can also abort a system shutdown, remotely reboot a system on the network or even just have a computer automatically log off.

Here are few of the more important command line commands built into Windows:

• Shutdown -s (Shuts down your computer)

• Shutdown -r (Shuts down and restarts your computer)

• Shutdown -m \computername (Shutdown a remote computer)

• Shutdown -a (Abort a system shutdown)

• Shutdown -l (Log Off)

Just some handy commands if you want to automate the restart or shutdown system via a batch file, which you may then schedule with the built-in Windows task scheduler.

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