Tech Blog » shutdown -a http://www.kensfi.com Home is where you hang your @ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:30:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to make a computer virus in just 3 minutes http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-make-a-computer-virus-in-just-3-minutes/ http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-make-a-computer-virus-in-just-3-minutes/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 03:38:46 +0000 Ken http://www.kensfi.com/?p=462 Take it easy, it’s just a prank!
In fact it’s about modifying a shutdown icon into a …”virus”.
To do this is necessarily to locate a shortcut which you believe the computer user is using it frequently. Let’s say Internet Explorer icon.
Right click on the shortcut, properties, into the Target field paste this:
shutdown -s -t 10 -c “WARNING! Your computer is infected and will shutdown!”, where 10 means 10 seconds. You can modify it as you wish. Right now you will need to put back the IE icon. Right click on it / properties / Change icon / Browse on C:/program files/internet explorer and click on IExplore / Open / OK / Apply.

Now, all the time when your friend is trying to access Internet Explorer by clicking on that icon, he will receive this message “WARNING! Your computer is infected and will shutdown!” and the computer really will shutdown in a couple of seconds.

virus-prank

But what is if you want to do not shutdown but restart?
For this you’ll write in the target field of the shortcut:
shutdown -r -t 10 -c “WARNING! Your computer is infected and will shutdown!”
“r” is coming from Restart, “s” from shutdown.

To stop the shutdown process write as fast as you can in START / run: shutdown -a

PS. I am not responsible for any arm, leg or fingers you get broken after this prank! :)) More about creating of shortcuts for fast shutdown and fast restart in this article: Fast Shutdown and Fast Restart buttons
]]> http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-make-a-computer-virus-in-just-3-minutes/feed/ 6 How to abort a shutdown http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-abort-a-shutdown/ http://www.kensfi.com/how-to-abort-a-shutdown/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:06:21 +0000 Ken http://www.kensfi.com/?p=313 If you accidentally click on shutdown button and you want to abort it you need to do the following:
-Click Start
-Click run
-Type in: shutdown -a
-Enter (or click OK)

The second method is pretty the same but little more easy. You follow the same steps but you type in run console: cmd and Enter, instead shutdown -a.

Anyway, for the both methods, you need to be fast ;)



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