Assigning a single keystroke to shutdown windows/vista?

gizmo1990 · 5 Jul 2009 at 16:46

Is there anyway to do this? Some sort of memory resident program which will let me do a user assigned keystroke to shutdown windows?

I'm not going to have a monitor attached to a pc so I need to be able to reliably shut it down without having to press a combination of keys which would be easy to get wrong.

Any advice/suggestions greatly appreciated.

Pho · 5 Jul 2009 at 16:51

Why not just press the power button on the PC? You can change what it does (sleep, hibernate, shutdown) in Vista's power options.

edit: or use remote desktop

paradigm · 5 Jul 2009 at 17:00

Or use a remote shutdown:

shutdown -m \\machinename -s -t 00

n1kunj · 5 Jul 2009 at 17:02

I'm sure with some coding magic this would be simple using Autohotkey.

Don't ask me though, I'm useless with it

bledd · 6 Jul 2009 at 11:49

write a shutdown script

although I'd use sleep mode, shutdown sucks

create a shortcut to this bat file, assign say F11 to this