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Add a button to windows shutdown?: shutdown, hibernate, logoff, and "something"
In the windows menu there are some default actions, each one corresponding with a batch command.
shutdown /s /t 0
shutdown /h /t 0
shutdown /r /t 0
Is there a way to add a new button to that list, ...
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Does Windows 8 really shutdown? [duplicate]
I have Windows 8 Pro installed on a laptop and i use it for hours at a time, like in 8 - 10 hour periods before shutting down or restarting. I'm as usual impressed with the incredible startup speed ...
user178744
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Windows : How to detect if computer was shut down remotely?
A computer in domain is randomly shut down by someone (he was caught once)!
He uses shutdown /s /f /t 0 /m \\computername in windows command line to accomplish this.
After the incident some ...
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Avoid "system will shut down in 10 minutes" using shutdown on windows
Is it possible to avoid the message that displays that the system will shut down in ten minutes if using the following command?
shutdown -s -t 3600
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Odd Shut down issue
Whenever I shut down my computer by press power button or shutting down in Windows 8 my computer comes on by moving the mouse.
I know it sounds like sleep mode but it's not.
Just to make sure it ...
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Shutdown Windows 8 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I shutdown Windows 8?
I haven't been able to find anything in the GUI of Windows 8 to shutdown the computer. So I have to open a Command Prompt and type shutdown.exe -s ...
user182816
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Shut down by pressing the power button twice [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to force a “do you really want to shutdown?” dialog in Windows 7?
I have set my laptop's power button to shut down the computer when it is pressed (Windows 7 x86). But I ...
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Shutdown whole network computers [closed]
Imagine you have network with about 70 computers which work with none-administrator users. What I need is to shutdown whole network or group of computers at once from one computer. I actually found (!...
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Windows 8 doesn't hibernate after dual-boot with Debian
I have recently installed Debian on my laptop and am now dual-booting it with Windows 8. Windows 8 shows following problems: after spending some time setting up Debian and booting up Win again, I ...
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In Windows 8 when the fast startup mode is enabled, shutdown saves the windows services
In Windows 8 when the fast startup mode is enabled, shutdown saves the windows services and resumes the services when powered ON again. This behavior is different from normal shutdown as services dont ...
Dinesh
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Fast shutdown of Windows Machine
Is there a (programmatic) equivalent to Linux's "Alt-SysRQ Sync Unmount reBoot" reboot sequence on Windows?
Regular shutdown causes a lot of data to be written to drive, yanking the power cannot be ...
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Shutdown /a doesn't work... error
I had a bat file with shutdown -a for when I accidentally shut down pc bit it gave me this error when I had the chance to use it (i.e. after shutdown had been triggered):
But it works fine when it ...
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Are there downsides to Windows 8 Hybrid Shutdown?
Are there any downside to Windows 8 not doing a "full" shutdown? Would it be good practice to occasionally do a full shutdown to do a full system initialization at boot?
If I'm already booting from ...
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Windows does not shut down
I have shutdown problem in my desktop system.
I have a Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP SP2.
I suspect that the problem might be due to virus so I have updated the virus definitions (Microsoft ...
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Windows 8 taking 4+ mins to shutdown
I did a fresh installation of Windows 8 64 bit, build 9200 (released on aug 16th). I installed the drivers and some basic softwares like NetBeans, mingw, iis server and php. For the first few times, ...
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