I want to time a shutdown to occur 60 seconds after RunOnceEx finishes on XP Professional SP3, but I don't want the annoying, ugly timer box, or any batch windows to appear at all. How can I accomplish this?

Good question, its such an ugly box why did they have to make it look like your system has just failed !?

You could use a VBS script as the last entry in your RuOnceEx that will hide the dialog

Save as ShutDown.vbs

WScript.Sleep 60000
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run("shutdown.exe -r -f"),0,True

REG ADD %KEY%\999 /VE /D "Shut Down Computer" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\999 /V 1 /D "%Install%\Shutdown\ShutDown.vbs" /f

Thank you, I will give it a go now ...

Thank you, I will give it a go now ...

Me too!

I can't get this to work, I have done everything you said but it still gives me the shutdown screen with 30 seconds to reboot I did delete the old reboot info from my cleanup.cmd ?? 3 times I have tried now with the same result, I'm sure it worked the 1st time I tried it

Here try this new code I have tested this and it works

Save As Shutdown.vbs

 WScript.Sleep 60000
 Dim Col, Obj, Wmi
  Set Wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\.\root\cimv2")
  Set Obj = Wmi.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
   For Each Col in Obj
	Col.Shutdown(2)
   Next

Thanks gunsmokingman, but that didn't work either just shut it down and didn't restart I just put this "shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00" into a program called "Quick Batch File Compiler" and it worked perfect .. I also put that same command into a .bat file but I prefer using the .exe QBFC made as it seems to happen alot faster ..

why not use psShutdown frm SysinernalsSuite ?

psshutdown.exe -f -r -t <time> -v 0

why not use psShutdown frm SysinernalsSuite ?

psshutdown.exe -f -r -t <time> -v 0

Thanks, it hid the countdown, but you did forget to list a very important switch, /accepteula. Without it, an unattended install gets stopped dead.

oops, 4g0t, as i already ran it