Forcing Smooth Shutdowns and Restarts, Please (Because I Love Analog ClocX)

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[Mr. Austin]

I’ve been using ClocX for so long I don’t remember (at this writing) when I started using it. I love it because I came up on analog, and all of us are fundamentally creatures with analog baseware.

All the Windows machines on which I’ve tried ClocX ask if I’m sure I want to shut down/restart the machine because ClocX stops shut down/restart. Yes, I’m sure. 😉

What simple, automatic ‘switch’ could be added to the Windows 10 restart/shutdown commands so that it always and automatically forces any open programs to close? And where can I find simple instructions on how to do that? Should Task Scheduler be used? Or should the executables for both shutdown and restart be tweaked?

Merci buckets

Human, who sports only naturally-occurring DNA ~ oneironaut ~ broadcaster

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shutdown.exe /p /f (force shut down)
shutdown.exe -s -t 120 (timer)
shutdown.exe –r (restart)

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Mr. Austin

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Thanks Alex, That’s a decent start for me with the command line switches. I use them so infrequently because a coder I’m gnot 😉

Human, who sports only naturally-occurring DNA ~ oneironaut ~ broadcaster

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The question is, can you shut down ClocX using a command line. If not you may not be able to do this.
Alternatively, you may be able to code it in AutoIt / AutoHotKey.

cheers, Paul

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Thank you Paul. I’m trying to do this without learning code I’ve already forgotten because I haven’t used it since the time of Noah😉.

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You could also just make a simple double click desktop icon to force windows shutdown.

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Mr. Austin

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This is one of my favorite replies because it spells it out for me, and I might then interpolate how to mod the actual shutdown.exe. Thank you.

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After creating the shortcut (using either that syntax, or using /t 60) it launches, and then blazes through command line switches, shuts the command line window, and doesn’t shut down.

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/t 60 is a minute delay, not immediate. /t 0 will give you an immediate shutdown.

“/s /f /t o” = shutdown, force (shutdown of running processes), timedelay = 0.

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Derp. I was going for 60 seconds.

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“/s /f /t 0”

zero, not oh.

cheers, Paul

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Mr. Austin

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*That* I knew. I just had the numerical value incorrect.

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