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With the proliferation of operating systems and the need to do testing in a “sandbox” one of the great tools is VMWare. It comes in two free flavours at the moment the vmware player and strangely enough the vmware server appears to be free now.

Maybe its something worth checking out.

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Under Windows XP the Shutdown command is installed as part of the system (you need to install the program under Windows 2000).

The help has the following information:

Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

No args same as -?
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a  Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c “comment” Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown

u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer <256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer < 65536)

My usage is as follows:

shutdown -f -r -t 0 (shuts down and restarts, forcing all windows to close)

shutdown -f -s -t 0 (shuts down the computer forcing all windows to close)

shutdown -f -l -t 0 (logs off the current user quickly)

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This page is designed to allow for someone who is getting started in the computer field.  It will explore several areas that I believe will allow for more profitable outcomes in their life.
For starters some good tools for network testing on the internet are NwTools.com and DnsStuff.com. Some other interesting tools are Netstat (shows connections to a computer) and ipconfig.

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