hi all
i am making a shortcut for shutdown .
so i m using command
shutdown -h for hibernate
shutdown -l for logoff
but whenever i use time for it
like
shutdown -h -t 120
where t 120 is number of secs after which the command will execute then the command doesnt executes
this command works fine for restart shutdown -s -t 120
help me s o that i can use hibernate with time
no it aint working either...
The time-out switch is not supported by hibernate.
You could use AT 12:20 "shutdown /h" to schedule a hibernate at a specific time.
Maybe I'm not following what you are saying. In Vista the the timeout swtich doesn't work either. This is because of the underlying APIs. Other applications, like psshutdown, work by creating either a temporary windows service or keeps an active process opens that waits until the time-out to hibernate. The shutdown.exe process does neither. The shutdown.exe process when shuttting down or restarting uses the InitiateSystemShutdownEx API that supports an optional timeout. The APIs for sleep and hibernation do not support a time-out.
Having same issue but i'm not understanding the solution..
think i'm missing the point.
if I want to force a shutdown I can just creat a 'dothis.cmd' edited with notepad that contains one line of ''shutdown /s /t 3600'' and in 60 minutes it will shutdown.
so why does it support hibernate if the option never works?
changing the line in the batch file to shutdown /h /t 3600 fails everytime
I'd love to get this working as my mb does not support shutdown in win7(dont ask, even the machines front power button does not turn it off, well it does, then 3 seconds later it turns back on, every time)
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