Scheduled shutdown

[Petbul]

Hi,
I would like to shedule shutdown of my Laptop. I tried various tools (12Ghost shutdown,AMP Winoff,shutdown.exe - command line utility etc.) - but all of them finished with "It is now safe to turn off..". (After them I have to eject batery and power...!) . Any idea?

Many thanks.
Petr
PS. Standard shutdown from Start menu works fine...


Best regards
Petr

 

[penauroth]

Try using the shutdown command with the -f switch (force)

Paul

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

http://www.losoft.de/ls_down.html

Works very well, even remote powerdowns on networked pc's. You just have to copy the down.exe and nterr10.dll to c:\winnt\system32 on the remote and local pc and run it like a dos command from your pc or server. We did have some issues with the Hal.dll on laptops and pc's that did not support a full powerdown (they would just reboot)and required being overwritten with the most current one from the manufacturer. Play with it and see, also update your bios to the latest version.

Cliff, CCNA/MCSE/MCSA 2000
Network Systems Engineer

 

[Petbul]

Thank you for an advice penauroth, with shutdown -h is the functinality absolutely the same.
Kind regards Petr

Best regards
Petr

 

[joe9090]

Hi

I have just the program for you!!!!!!!!

its called (Power off) and you cant get to shutdown your pc or laptop at any time you wish you just set a date or time you want it to shutdown and it will do a complete power down, give this a try it is also Free.

You can download it direct from this address

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/pwoff30.zip

joe9090

 

[netwalker1]

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/pwroff30.zip

Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!

 

[Al6042]

Hi guys...

one of the easiest and cheapest way is the use of the PSTOOLS commandline utility from Sysinternals:

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

Try it... ;-)))

Cheers

 

[penauroth]

One last shot...

Try using the shutdown command with the -f switch in a runas statement using administrator credentials.

Paul