/i - Show the graphics user interface.

/e - This enables documentation for the shutdown of the computer.

The following additional commands are supported The shutdown /i GUI

shutdown /p - Turns the computer off without prior warnings.

shutdown /l - Logs off the current user.

shutdown /h - Hibernates the local computer.

shutdown /g - Like shutdown /r, but will restart any registered program when the system has loaded.

shutdown /r - Shuts down the computer, and restarts it afterwards.

This shuts down the computer when you run it. Can be useful if Windows Update decided that it is time to reboot the PC, or if your actions or other programs started the process.

shutdown /a - This command stops a shut down or reboot process.

The following major commands are provided Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe, and hit the Enter-key on the keyboard. This is explained later in the guide.įirst thing you need to do is open a command prompt window: What you can do however is create shortcuts so that you don't have to write the commands each time you want to use them, but can simply click on the shortcut instead to run them. You run shutdown from the command prompt or PowerShell interface.

Windows 7 cannot shutdown