scheduled shutdown

I want to setup a shutdown command using schedule. When I run it something
comes up on the screen very briefly and then nothing. Shutdown does not run.
Could this be a permission issue? I know how to make changes through
gpedit.msc when logged in as an administrator but I cannot find anything
about shutdown permissions.

Thank you.

Howard - JC Publishing <HowardJCPublishing@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I want to setup a shutdown command using schedule. When I run it
> something comes up on the screen very briefly and then nothing.
> Shutdown does not run. Could this be a permission issue?

Could be (I'd presume you were doing this as an administrator, though), but
how'd you run it? In a command window?

Since you say "schedule" - use a batch file & task scheduler, and
supply admin credentials to run the task.

In the batch file,

shutdown -r -t 3

....will shut down the PC in 3 seconds, and then restart it

shutdown -t 10

will shut down in 10 seconds.

Etc.

In a command prompt run shutdown /? for all the parameters.


> I know how
> to make changes through gpedit.msc when logged in as an administrator
> but I cannot find anything about shutdown permissions.
>
> Thank you.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:47:02 -0700, Howard - JC Publishing wrote:

> I want to setup a shutdown command using schedule. When I run it
> something comes up on the screen very briefly and then nothing.
> Shutdown does not run.
> Could this be a permission issue? I know how to make changes through
> gpedit.msc when logged in as an administrator but I cannot find anything
> about shutdown permissions.

How are you scheduling the shutdown?

"Howard - JC Publishing"
<HowardJCPublishing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90FC0B11-C57B-45CE-BD24-43D2BCCAB48C@microsoft.com...
> When I run it something comes up on the screen very briefly and then
> nothing.

You are running a console-mode program. It doesn't have a GUI window.
Its stdout goes to the console window. When you exit the program, the
console window closes. So when 'shutdown' exits, its console window
closes. Run the program in a command shell (aka DOS shell).

I am using Schedule Tasks with the shutdown -s command. I tried just
entering that command in the CMD window and get a permission error message.


"Avi Greenbury" wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:47:02 -0700, Howard - JC Publishing wrote:
>
> > I want to setup a shutdown command using schedule. When I run it
> > something comes up on the screen very briefly and then nothing.
> > Shutdown does not run.
> > Could this be a permission issue? I know how to make changes through
> > gpedit.msc when logged in as an administrator but I cannot find anything
> > about shutdown permissions.
>
> How are you scheduling the shutdown?
>

Howard - JC Publishing <HowardJCPublishing@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I am using Schedule Tasks with the shutdown -s command. I tried just
> entering that command in the CMD window and get a permission error
> message.

Please see my reply.
>
>
> "Avi Greenbury" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:47:02 -0700, Howard - JC Publishing wrote:
>>
>>> I want to setup a shutdown command using schedule. When I run it
>>> something comes up on the screen very briefly and then nothing.
>>> Shutdown does not run.
>>> Could this be a permission issue? I know how to make changes
>>> through gpedit.msc when logged in as an administrator but I cannot
>>> find anything about shutdown permissions.
>>
>> How are you scheduling the shutdown?