Shutdown & Restart shortcuts?

I would like to create a shutdown and restart shortcut, I've googled and different methods come up so I'm a little lost as to which one to use. Basically what I want is for the laptop to shutdown/restart normally as if it would by me going to 'start, turn off computer'

For shutdown would it be 'shutdown.exe -s'? Or would I have to put a timer '-t 30' for example? At the moment my laptop will shutdown sometimes as quickly as 5-10 seconds so is the timer necessary or is just a way to abort the shutdown/restart?

TIA

 

shutdown: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f

restart: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 0


If you use a timer then a shutdown dialog thing will come up and count down however long you put, then it will initialize the shutdown process. I think you can only cancel the process if you have a timer, but I'm not sure of the command to cancel the shutdown.

 

shutdown -a is to abort the shutdown.

 

Once the shutdown process starts, this command rarely (if ever) works. Never on my comps, anyway.

cheers ...

 

you can also remote shutdown by using -i in the command if you know someone's ip address

e.g. shutdown -i

Then select the options you want

 

It does if you have the time to run it. It only stops it if you get the popup window stating the system will restart in x amount of seconds. If it has started the shutdown process (closing windows), I don't believe it will stop it at that point.

 

Thanks lads, most helpful.

I've found the only thing shutdown -a has been useful for is when a friend had a virus years ago that would pop up with a 1 minute shutdown box.

 

If you set the shutdown to have a timer that shutdown box is what'll come up.

 

That suuure sounds like a virus.. Unless its the blaster worm lol

 

blaster, yer that rings a bell could have been that one.

 

bah, I can't use the shutdown/restart command for the rainmeter config im making, nothing happens.