I'm looking for a small exe program (or anything else!) wich doesn't look ugly as shutdown.exe.

To me it looks like a big error message and remind me one of those summer 2003 virus!

Maybe something more graphical with a few buttons like Reboot Now and Cancel.

EDIT: WoW 400 post!

I havent gotten a chance to try it out myself, but Ive seen many other people (including RyanVM's page) refer to this tool...

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml

Let the rest of us know how it is!

PsShutdown gives the same window he was referring to

Ok, I tried PsShutdown.exe:

basic

Some options

At least I can put a cancel button...

EDIT: I don't understand how to use the -e option:

-e Shutdown reason code.

Specify 'u' for user reason codes and 'p' for planned shutdown reason codes.

xx is the major reason code (must be less than 256)

yy is the minor reason code (must be less than 65536)

psshutdown [[\\computer[,computer[,..] | @file [-u user [-p psswd]]] -s|-r|-h|-d|-k|-a|-l|-o [-f] [-c] [-t nn|h:m] [-n s] [-e [u|p]:xx:yy] [-m "message"]

You could try PeShutdown.exe. It was write WinPE but works on XP.

http://home.t-online.de/home/520085154509/peshutdown.exe

No countdown and a very quick splash screen.

i use PowerOff

nice link

Ok, I tried PsShutdown.exe:

basic

Some options

At least I can put a cancel button...

EDIT: I don't understand how to use the -e option:

-e Shutdown reason code.

Specify 'u' for user reason codes and 'p' for planned shutdown reason codes.

xx is the major reason code (must be less than 256)

yy is the minor reason code (must be less than 65536)

psshutdown [[\\computer[,computer[,..] | @file [-u user [-p psswd]]] -s|-r|-h|-d|-k|-a|-l|-o [-f] [-c] [-t nn|h:m] [-n s] [-e [u|p]:xx:yy] [-m "message"]

Windows Server 2003 requires you enter a reason when you attempt to restart...

Hmmmm, t 00 should not display this window...

Or try using wmic os where Primary="TRUE" Call Reboot

t 00 would reboot the computer instantly... not a good thing since Windows isn't fully booted at the end of RunOnceEx.cmd.

Keep in mind I only want a gentle warning with a timer, and maybe a few buttons like Reboot Now and Cancel.

Using this directly after ROE and didnt find any problem...

But if U want it other way, that I can provide two solutions

1.) Using sleep + t 00

2.) Using PowerOff (http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html) with timer on