power off

Hi All,

Just a fun utility I like to share with
my friends called "Power Off":

http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html
http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/pwroff30.zip

Allows you to do all kinds of direct shutdowns and
reboots. Plus, you don't have to scratch your
head trying to figure out where things are at
when you want to shut down, etc.. (Although,
I really should learn, so this may be a crutch.)

I put an icon to its network icon on my desktop.

-T

I use this a lot on my Administration Desktop
when I am logged into a Windows Server with
RDP, where RDP make it fun to reboot. But, you
got to be careful to restrict it to the Administrator.

T wrote:

Hi All,

Just a fun utility I like to share with
my friends called "Power Off":

http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html
http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/pwroff30.zip

Allows you to do all kinds of direct shutdowns and
reboots. Plus, you don't have to scratch your
head trying to figure out where things are at
when you want to shut down, etc.. (Although,
I really should learn, so this may be a crutch.)

I put an icon to its network icon on my desktop.

-T

I use this a lot on my Administration Desktop
when I am logged into a Windows Server with
RDP, where RDP make it fun to reboot. But, you
got to be careful to restrict it to the Administrator.

Windows 10 doesn't have the shutdown.exe utility available back in
Windows 7?

The author says says his PowerOff program supports "Win95/98/NT/W2K/XP"
so it doesn't seem the author has verified use on Win7, and later. It
looks to provide a feature missing on earlier versions of Windows but
doesn't look needed on Windows 7, or later.

As for scheduling the shutdown, doesn't Windows 10 have Task Scheduler?
It says PowerOff has its own scheduler (which means yet another process
to load) but what could it have that Task Scheduler doesn't?

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 05:13:08 VanguardLH wrote:

T wrote:

Hi All,

Just a fun utility I like to share with
my friends called "Power Off":

http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html
http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/pwroff30.zip

Allows you to do all kinds of direct shutdowns and
reboots. Plus, you don't have to scratch your
head trying to figure out where things are at
when you want to shut down, etc.. (Although,
I really should learn, so this may be a crutch.)

I put an icon to its network icon on my desktop.

-T

I use this a lot on my Administration Desktop
when I am logged into a Windows Server with
RDP, where RDP make it fun to reboot. But, you
got to be careful to restrict it to the Administrator.

Windows 10 doesn't have the shutdown.exe utility available back in
Windows 7?

Yes, it does! It's the only way I have of shutting down a Windows 10
machine from remote.

David

--
David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

On 03/19/2015 03:31 AM, David Rance wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 05:13:08 VanguardLH wrote:

T wrote:

Hi All,

Just a fun utility I like to share with
my friends called "Power Off":

http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html
http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/pwroff30.zip

Allows you to do all kinds of direct shutdowns and
reboots. Plus, you don't have to scratch your
head trying to figure out where things are at
when you want to shut down, etc.. (Although,
I really should learn, so this may be a crutch.)

I put an icon to its network icon on my desktop.

-T

I use this a lot on my Administration Desktop
when I am logged into a Windows Server with
RDP, where RDP make it fun to reboot. But, you
got to be careful to restrict it to the Administrator.

Windows 10 doesn't have the shutdown.exe utility available back in
Windows 7?

Yes, it does! It's the only way I have of shutting down a Windows 10
machine from remote.

David



Shutdown.exe exists in both 7 and 10. This utility is more
for my convenience than anything else.