Most people would likely say that their work computer isn’t fast enough, but then which computer is.\u00a0 I am not actually unsatisfied, my laptop is good enough for compiling, using secure shell, mail and word processing. The company actually does have a pretty good VPN setup to allow me to work remotely.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that everything works well, I do have one very tiny little complaint.<\/p>\n
The only problem is that I cannot properly shutdown when I am working remotely, it just hangs.\u00a0 I have tried to shut it down by briefly pressing the power button sometimes that helps, sometimes it causes the computer to hibernate.<\/p>\n
It is a bit difficult to get this corrected by IT as it only happens when I am connecting remotely.\u00a0 When I am at the office and IT looks at it, it never misbehaves.\u00a0 I had someone from IT look into this and they cannot find any reason why my laptop cannot shutdown.<\/p>\n
I used to simply power the computer off without shutting down at all.<\/p>\n
Command line to the rescue<\/strong><\/p>\n Windows actually provides the shutdown.exe<\/em><\/strong> command which actually works much better than selecting shutdown from the start button.<\/p>\n It isn’t the shutdown command itself that is so powerful but the force option.\u00a0 I suspect that the software that was used to build the vpn is the problem despite having terminated the connection.<\/p>\n I don’t want to let windows make all of the decisions, I close all of the applications that I am using but now I can call shutdown to gracefully power down.<\/p>\n shutdown.exe \/s \/f <\/strong><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most people would likely say that their work computer isn’t fast enough, but then which computer is.\u00a0 I am not actually unsatisfied, my laptop is good enough for compiling, using secure shell, mail and word processing. The company actually does … Continue reading \n\n
\n option<\/td>\n description<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \/s<\/td>\n Schedules a shutdown of the computer after a few minutes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \/r<\/td>\n Shuts down the computer and then does a restart.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \/a<\/td>\n Aborts the current scheduled shutdown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \/f<\/td>\n Force applications to stop without informing the user.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n