Comments on: Command for auto reboot – Windows 7

By: efeliciano

efeliciano — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:51:12 +0000

“/c”
will allow you to display a prompt advising the user you have scheduled a reboot. One problem with setting up a scheduled reboot of this kind is that the user might be changing his finished document. The auto save might save text the end user did not want saved and possibly leaving you with the repercussions.

Best way to accomplish this task is advise all users to save their documents because you will automate a reboot on all machines which will cause all unsaved work to be deleted. The end user will be fully aware that they might loose their work if they do not take the steps to save.

By: orangehat

orangehat — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:51:57 +0000

We are on a domain and we run it from a server so the user’s can’t stop it or disable it. add \machinename to the batch file and set it up as a task but the .bat and task are on the server. We have user’s who won’t shutdown their machine and this way we jam it down their throats.

By: erroneousgiant

erroneousgiant — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:41:34 +0000

open the command prompt and type ‘shutdown /?’ to see all of your available options for this function.

I don’t think you’ll need it in a batch file as i think you can just put it in scheduled tasks as is.

By: mariodlg

mariodlg — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:01:15 +0000

Did you tried

shutdown /r /f

/f forces windows to shutdown without warning.