How to shutdown system from MS-DOS shell?

[amanyasin]

hi all users
i want to shutdown system from ms-dos command prompt. in winxp it was done by simply typing SHUTDOWN on command prompt. but in win2000 fallowing message dispalayed "shutdown" is not recognized command..........

 

[tsuji]

Hello ranaa,

Shutdown.exe avail in reskit. Also, can use free and handy psshutdown.exe from Sysinternals :

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml

regards - tsuji

 

[amanyasin]

thanks
is it freeware?

 

[tsuji]

ranaa,

Pshutdown.exe is free. Shutdown.exe and other reskits, you can download from some sites out there such as this and many others:

http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

- tsuji

 

[tsuji]

Further note:

The ms url is:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/default.asp

- tsuji

 

[amanyasin]

now it is working
thanks to much