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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Force a Quick Shutdown from the Command Prompt

Learned an interesting Windows Tip today which I read from Lifehacker.com. The tip was about forcing Windows OS to shutdown using the command prompt. On the command prompt, type "shutdown –s –f –t 0" where –s means shutdown, –f means "force," and -t 0 means Now. The command will stop to any running process and shutdown the computer.


Force a Quick Shutdown from the Command Prompt

Please take note that shutting down your machine this way can lost unsaved work. I only found this tip useful when some application or process hang and wont stop itself properly.

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