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re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Sunday, February 3, 2002 at 6:23 am Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted) What feature are you talking about? On Sunday, February 3, 2002 at 2:00 am, Raymond Hicks wrote: >This is a wonderful feature that I wish Microsoft had left in its later OS's. It >does not work in Windows ME or later. In fact, if you try to do this under Windows >2000, the shut down command is completely canceled altogether!!!! Talk about a smack >in the face! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 9:40 pm Posted by nordex (1 messages posted) On Sunday, February 3, 2002 at 6:23 am, Curt R wrote: >so is there any way,restarting a windows 2000 without restarting the computer? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 8:43 am Posted by J Smith (1 messages posted) For WinNT systems like Win2000 and WinXP make you batch file say: shutdown -s -t 0 to reboot do: shutdown -r -t 0 That is a zero after the 't'. On Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 9:40 pm, nordex wrote: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 4:46 am Posted by Carmen (1 messages posted) On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 8:43 am, J Smith wrote: >For WinNT systems like Win2000 and WinXP make you batch file say: > >shutdown -s -t 0 > >to reboot do: > >shutdown -r -t 0 > >That is a zero after the 't'. > Ok, I've tried this but for some reason, I am unabel to make this a .bat.....it shows as a text file...and has no 'program' tab in the properties. Have a I left a step out? Thanks Carmen [Reply or follow-up to this message] Show file extensions Friday, October 4, 2002 at 6:17 pm Posted by Nate (1 messages posted) If you have "Hide file extensions for known file types" checked in folder options, then you won't be able to change the extension simply by right clicking the file and renaming it. However, if you don't want to bother showing file extensions, you can just open notepad and choose "Save As" and add the .bat extension to the name of the file. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Monday, February 24, 2003 at 3:41 pm Posted by v green (1 messages posted) i've tried that under win 2000 but it says that shutdown is not a valid command On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 4:46 am, Carmen wrote: > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Only works in Windows 95/98 Monday, January 19, 2004 at 4:11 pm Posted by michiel (3 messages posted) you can copy shutdown.exe from an xp machine, from the windows/system32 folder. it also works on 2000 but for some reason microsoft forgot to include it.. grtz michiel On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 3:41 pm, v green wrote: >i've tried that under win 2000 but it says that shutdown is not a valid command > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Show file extensions Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 10:00 pm Posted by Per (1 messages posted) Here is a good visual guide about how to show file extensions in Windows XP: http://www.fileinfo.net/help/windows-show-extensions.html On Friday, October 4, 2002 at 6:17 pm, Nate wrote: >If you have "Hide file extensions for known file types" checked in folder options, >then you won't be able to change the extension simply by right clicking the file >and renaming it. However, if you don't want to bother showing file extensions, you >can just open notepad and choose "Save As" and add the .bat extension to the name >of the file. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum