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
=================================
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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Desktop shortcut for shutdown, but try this first

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

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" <yerk55@gmail.com> 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" <yerk55@gmail.com> 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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