toda Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Previous versions of vista have allowed a shutdown command to be issued in n seconds where n can be any number. Vista business (at least) now requires a maximum of 600 seconds ot 10 minutes. In a hypothetical situation, say I wanted to download a file which was to take about an hour. I needed to leave my workstation but still shut it down before I left the office for the weekend. I would normally set the shutdown timer for 2 hours, or 3 just to be sure the file had finished downloading. Now with the 10 limit, this cannot be achieved. My question is this: What is the motivation behind such a change in policy, can it be reversed, and is the same across all platforms?John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I cannot say what the motivation is, but the shutdown command always had that limit also in 2K/XP:http://www.ss64.com/nt/shutdown.htmlMainly because you don't use it normally with such big a delay, it is much more convenient to use either the old AT command:http://www.ss64.com/nt/at.htmlor the newish SCHTASKS:http://www.ss64.com/nt/schtasks.htmlAnd, in the case of a shutdown depending on a certain action having been completed, the "proper" way is to use a conditional check (for example in the case of a file download, check the local filesize every, say, ten minutes and IF filesize is correct, initialize the shutdown)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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