Replace shutdown with a forceful shutdown?

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Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you

choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)

to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".



I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you

cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...

this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont

care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.

All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than

trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just

want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,

Shutdown" method.



Thanks
 
yerk55 wrote:

> Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you

> choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)

> to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

>

> I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you

> cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...

> this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont

> care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.

> All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than

> trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just

> want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,

> Shutdown" method.

>

> Thanks

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Maybe creating a desktop shortcut would

work for you...see the following article:



Shutdown XP using your keyboard

http://www.tweakxp.com/article36999.aspx



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yerk55 wrote:

> Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you

> choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)

> to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

>

> I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you

> cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...

> this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont

> care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.

> All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than

> trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just

> want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,

> Shutdown" method.

>

> Thanks
 
"yerk55" wrote in message

news:53837aef-6101-4574-822b-ea6d9ff90d3c@w16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com...

> Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you

> choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown option)

> to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s -f".

>

> I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you

> cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...

> this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont

> care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.

> All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than

> trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just

> want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,

> Shutdown" method.

>

> Thanks



Yes - by making them use a shortcut that executes shutdown.exe. On the other

hand you cannot modify the inbuilt shutdown process.
 
Pegasus [MVP] wrote:

> "yerk55" wrote in message

> news:53837aef-6101-4574-822b-ea6d9ff90d3c@w16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com...

>> Is there a way (in registry or something) to arrange it so when you

>> choose to shutdown an XP box (using the normal Start, Shutdown

>> option) to replace this with a forceful shutdown, like "shutdown -s

>> -f". I know, please dont tell me it's not a proper solution for when you

>> cant shutdown due to processes hindering normal windows shutdown...

>> this if for users whose XP boxes are almost out the door, so I dont

>> care to troubleshoot whats causing them to hang while shutting down.

>> All I know is shutdown -s -f is doing the trick, and rather than

>> trying to teach users to shutdown via a desktop batch file, I just

>> want to know if there's a way to force this into the normal "Start,

>> Shutdown" method.

>>

>> Thanks

>

> Yes - by making them use a shortcut that executes shutdown.exe. On

> the other hand you cannot modify the inbuilt shutdown process.



Depends on how you want to modify it...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

http://ss64.com/nt/shutdown.html



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