What were the command-line options for Shutdown?
Shutdown accepted the following commands:
shutdown.exe 1-- Shut down Windows safely, flushing all file buffers to disk and stopping all running processesshutdown.exe 2-- Log off the current usershutdown.exe 3-- Shut down and power off (required hardware support)shutdown.exe 4-- Shut down and restart the computer
Adding FORCE after the command number forced applications to close immediately without prompting the user.
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