Hi Don, you are correct. I forgot an important step. To have SHUTDOWN
operate, you need to provide it some switches. Create a shortcut that has
this command: "SHUTDOWN -s -t 1" This will cause a shutdown of the computer
to take place in one second. There are other options, but this is how I used
it to quickly shutdown my computer. The main advantage over normal shutdown
seems to be that it forces programs to close that otherwise may have
complained. This is why I recommended it for the case that normal shutdown
process has problems.

Peter
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Peter wrote:

>SHUTDOWN.EXE is a Microsoft utility that allows proper shutdown and
>optional restart in an orderly manner.>>

Peter, I'm unclear about this.  Are you referring to Shutdown.exe in the
System32 folder? Or something different?

My Shutdown.exe file description shows it to be a "remote shutdown". It has
a dos icon and when I double-click it, nothing happens.

Don Penlington

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