SHUTDOWN | A CLI command for Windows

It's really cool to shutdown your computer through Run command or command prompt. Actually shutdown is a CLI (command line interface) command or function which is use to shutdown, restart, log off or hibernate your computer.

This command is also use to remotely shutdown or restart a computer you are accessing over a network.

shutdown -s -t 60

Explain:

-s : Shutdown and Power off the computer
-t : Time before shutdown i.e 60 sec in the above command.

Use this through Run window:

Step 1: Press Window key + R button on your keyboard.

        This will open a Run window on your screen.

Step 2: Now type the above command in run window i.e: shutdown -s -t 60

Step 3: Hit the enter button.
        This will shut down your windows PC in 60 seconds.

Use this through command prompt: 

Step 1: Press Window key + R button on your keyboard.

        This will open a Run window on your screen.

Step 2: Type cmd in run window and hit enter.

        This will open a command prompt on your screen.

Step 2: Now type the shutdown command in command prompt i.e: shutdown -s -t 60

Step 3: Hit the enter button.
        This will shut down your windows PC in 60 seconds.

Note : To know more about shutdown command, just type shutdown /? in command prompt.

Some more example:

Example 1:

shutdown /l

This command immediately logged off your windows PC. It doesn’t display any warning messages.

Example 2:

shutdown /r

This command restart your windows PC

Example 2:

shutdown /s /t 0

This command immediately shutdown your windows PC because /t is given 0.

Example 3:

shutdown -s -c "Ha Ha, I Shut Down your computer!!!!" -t 60

This command will display a message i.e: "Ha Ha, I Shut Down your computer!!!!" before shutdown.

Example 4:

shutdown /a

This command immediately abort a system shutdown process.