What is the Windows 7 shutdown command? The shutdown command in Windows 7 is just that, shutdown. However, only typing shutdown will render no results. It needs to have a letter (argument) typed after it. Here’s the easy to understand example given by Microsoft: To translate, the command is: shutdown /LETTER or a more specific example: shutdown /s However, some letters have variables after them, such as /m which allows you to type the address or name of a network computer you want to remotely shutdown. There are quite a few of them so here is a list of the available shutdown options for the command. How do I use the shutdown command? For /d – Reasons on this computer: (E = Expected U = Unexpected P = planned, C = customer defined) Type Major Minor Title U 0 0 Other (Unplanned) E 0 0 Other (Unplanned) E P 0 0 Other (Planned) U 0 5 Other Failure: System Unresponsive E 1 1 Hardware: Maintenance (Unplanned) E P 1 1 Hardware: Maintenance (Planned) E 1 2 Hardware: Installation (Unplanned) E P 1 2 Hardware: Installation (Planned) E 2 2 Operating System: Recovery (Planned) E P 2 2 Operating System: Recovery (Planned) P 2 3 Operating System: Upgrade (Planned) E 2 4 Operating System: Reconfiguration (Unplanned) E P 2 4 Operating System: Reconfiguration (Planned) P 2 16 Operating System: Service pack (Planned) U 2 17 Operating System: Hot fix (Unplanned) P 2 17 Operating System: Hot fix (Planned) U 2 18 Operating System: Security fix (Unplanned) P 2 18 Operating System: Security fix (Planned) E 4 1 Application: Maintenance (Unplanned) E P 4 1 Application: Maintenance (Planned) E P 4 2 Application: Installation (Planned) E 4 5 Application: Unresponsive E 4 6 Application: Unstable U 5 15 System Failure: Stop error U 5 19 Security issue E 5 19 Security issue E P 5 19 Security issue E 5 20 Loss of network connectivity (Unplanned) U 6 11 Power Failure: Cord Unplugged U 6 12 Power Failure: Environment P 7 0 Legacy API shutdown In Windows 7 there are a few ways to enter commands like the shutdown one. The easiest is going to be by using the Start Menu to enter it. Click the Start Menu Orb and then just Type in the shutdown command such as: shutdown –g Then Press Enter.
Windows will go ahead and shutdown, even if the computer you are working on is a remote desktop client! This procedure is a groovy technique. I use it frequently to quickly restart pesky virtual machines that are running on my Windows servers. Just one thing to note, don’t run that command unless you mean it. It’s not easy to stop, and it WILL reboot your system after about 20 seconds. The cool thing about -g is all the apps that were open were re-opened after the restart. That’s cool. Didn’t know about the -G switch so that’s cool. Here’s my question, why the -g instead of /g? From all the switches you would think the -g would not work…???? /g is the correct switch isn’t it? There isn’t much of a difference between -g and /g, both are equally effective in Windows 7 whether you are using the start menu text box or a CMD prompt to enter the command. Comment Name * Email *
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