Avoid "system will shut down in 10 minutes" using shutdown on windows

Question

Is it possible to avoid the message that displays that the system will shut down in ten minutes if using the following command?

shutdown -s -t 3600

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

As an alternative, you could use an external timer and a force shutdown at the correct time. For example:

timeout -t 3600 -nobreak && shutdown -s -t 00

Note that a caveat of this approach is that the shutdown command is not actually send (e.g. to networked computers) until the timeout is finished, therefore you will need the sending computer to be on with a working connection at the end of the timeout. A workaround is to run the entire command directly on the target computer, e.g. with PsExec.

If you want to hide the command window as well, there are many ways to do so.

I personally favour a PowerShell-based command that hides itself (run from a cmd window in this case):

start powershell.exe -WindowStyle Hidden -Command "sleep 3600; shutdown -s -t 00"

PowerShell can be configured for remoting, too. And it might be preferable to use the native Stop-Computer command rather than shutdown.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 02 '20 at 16:24

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You can easily do that by changing the comment to space:

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c " "

The warning message will be skipped because there is no message.

answered Jan 02 '20 at 16:24

Guy Shefer

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 25 '18 at 06:37

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Add the -p flag to avoid the "System will shutdown in 10 minutes" message.

shutdown -p -s -t 3600

edited Jan 25 '18 at 06:37

Kamil Maciorowski

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answered Jan 25 '18 at 02:41

Raen

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 11 '13 at 05:35

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You will have to turn off the automatic logoff command task..

 Windows -> Start -> Run -> shutdown -a

answered Oct 11 '13 at 05:35

Lucky

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 08 '14 at 22:35

You can also use the Task Scheduler utility.

Start Menu -> Search "Task Scheduler"

Action -> Create Basic Task

Choose the time and frequency for which you want the event to occur.

Once you get to the Action section, select "Start a Program" and choose:

"C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe"

and give the appropriate parameters for the arguments:

/s /f /t 0

These argmuments break down as follows: /s shutdown /f force the shutdown /t 0 t for time, 0 seconds

Click finish and you're good to go.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 02 '13 at 10:13

If you want to cancel the shutdown, use this command, use shutdown -a. If you just want to hide the notification:

Make it appear by running shutdown -s -t 3600.
Right-click on the clock and select Customize notification icons.
Find Windows logon reminder and choose Hide icon and notifications.

Shutdown tooltips won't appear on that computer anymore and the icon will be hidden.

Avoid "system will shut down in 10 minutes" using shutdown on windows

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You can also use the Task Scheduler utility.