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Re: Rebooting from command line


> As I have to constantly reboot my NT machine, I was wondering if anyone
> knew a command line utility that can do this?
> (I can't use a GUI utility as I log on remotely with telnet).

The NT 3.51 Resource Kit has a shutdown.exe that I use in a script to reboot
my machine.  It can shutdown machines over a network, too (although I haven't
tried this since I only have one machine...).  Alternatively, you could
write your own.  The command is something like ExitWindowsEx.

Geoff Prewett
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