How to Shut Down Your Computer With the Command Prompt:

How to Shut Down Your Computer With the Command Prompt:

Most of us are using shutdown button in the menu bar to shutdown computer, very less people are using command prompt to shut down a computer, why because most of them don't know how to shutdown a computer with command prompt

By using command prompt we can shutdown a computer, we can log off, we can restart

This article will help to shutdown a computer with the command prompt

Step 1: open command prompt (Go to Start -> type cmd in search box)

Step 2:  Type shutdown -s in the command prompt and click on enter, this command will shut down your computer

 It will display a message like windows will shut down in less than a minute.

Type shutdown -r in command prompt and click on enter, this command will restart your computer

It will display a message like windows will shut down in less than a minute.

Type Shutdown -l in command prompt and click on enter, this command will logoff your computer

If you want to shut down your computer after a specific time use the below command

Type shutdown -s -t 200 in command prompt and click on enter, this command will shut down your computer after 200 seconds

Click on enter you will get a message as shown below

If you want to display a custom message before shut down a system use below command

Type shutdown -s -t 300 -c "Bye I am going to sleep" in your command prompt and click on enter

-c command will give the reason for shut down

It will give a message as shown below

If you want to terminate already scheduled shutdown use below command

Type shutdown -a in command prompt and click on enter it will stop the system from shutting down

You will get a notification as shown below

Enjoy :)

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