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Is there any way to abort a reboot?
urlwolf:
Hmm,
Is there any way to abort a reboot? I sometimes hit a reboot button by accident in vista start menu and dunno how to stop the process.
Is it possible?
nudone:
can't you change the layout of the menu to prevent it happening?
Darwin:
Excellent question, urlwolf. I've always wondered (but wondering never turned to asking...) if it was possible to abort a reboot/shutdown.
cthorpe:
Windows XP has a command shutdown.exe that looks like it would work:
Usage: shutdown.exe [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-
c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [ u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)
f0dder:
Thing is that at a point during reboot/shutdown, windows won't let you launch new processes - you mostly see this if the system is in a limbo state because of a process that won't shut down.
So, generally, I'd say that it isn't feasible to abort shutdown - except for things like "critical service <bleh> has been nuked yadda yadda" (ie, what you get for a failed attack by the blaster worm or whatever).
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