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Dummy not responding application
I am currently determining how a production environment handles hung/not responding applications during Windows shutdown.
For testing that, it would be good to have a dummy application that does ...
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Auto Shutdown, after giving cancel option to user
I would like to setup a script or a tool on some computers for automatic shutdown, at a given time, say late in the night, when users have left for the day (forgetting to shutdown the computer). It ...
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Windows XP Will Not Restart
I have a Dell Precision T5500 that is dual-booted with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Previously, when shutting down Windows XP (fresh installation) it would sit at the "Windows is shutting down..." ...
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Windows XPe - no shutdown.exe / "Access is denied"
this is my first time posting and asking for help as I really can't get my head round it.
I'm an IT Technician in a team of 3 (including me) that work in a college. We had an old digital signage ...
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Difference between shutting down and rebooting PC
I have windows (XP SP3 32-bit) and linux (Xubuntu TT 64-bit) both installed on my laptop (as a dualboot). Now each of the following behavior has been tested on my PC several times:
When shutting down ...
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Windows XP doesn’t shutdown
I cannot shutdown my computer: when I normally press the buttons shutdown, restart, standby nothing happens.
All the applications are actually closed and I've not done any particular thing with my ...
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What is wrong with this Windows shutdown command?
I am using Windows 7 and XP. I want to run a script to run this command:
shutdown /p /f /t 120
On Windows 7, it shows that an error occurred, but I think I am using it correctly.
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Why does single user Windows XP machine say "Other users are logged in" at shutdown?
My mother runs Windows XP on her computer. Apparently randomly, on shutdown the machine will report that other users are logged on and proceeding may cause them to lose data. As a non-expert, this ...
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Can Googleupdate.exe cause delays when shutting down in Windows?
I have a computer running Windows XP which hangs in "windows is shutting down" for around two minutes. After running the Event Viewer, I've discovered that during this time, an error is recorded as a ...
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Automatically shut down Windows XP after completed MS Backup
A computer in the office is running daily backups (as scheduled task) with the Windows XP built in backup software. The backups are slowing down the computer too much, so we want the backup to run ...
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If a modern CPU runs DOS OK, is the apparent thermal shutdown in Win XP real?
I have an oldish laptop which is shutting down due to an apparent thermal overload. I want to determine if the overload is real or somehow imagined.
Usually the shutdown occurs just as I logon to Win ...
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Something runs shutdown.exe at Windows XP startup
On a Windows XP system something executes shutdown.exe at Windows XP startup. It is really annoying but I can't prevent it. I started the system in safe mode, and tried to find the responsible service ...
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scheduled task shutdown on XP
I'm attempting to use a scheduled task to shut down my win XP PC. I get the error: Task Scheduler Error 0x80070005: Access is denied. I'm logged in with administrative privileges but am unsure why the ...
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detecting if a Windows shutdown command has been issued
Is it possible to detect if the shutdown command has been issued (through the start menu by the user, or any other program running on the computer or having remote access to the computer), then cancel ...
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Run shutdown script as Administrator on Windows XP
I've written a script using Ninite Pro to update the installed Applications on the Windows XP pro Client.
Unfortunately it has no administrator privileges, is there a way to run a shutdown script as ...
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