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From Ron===
Dear Webby,
Sometimes I am called out of the office and need to shut
down the computer quickly and without any silly questions.
Is there a way to do that with Windows XP ?
Thanks
Ron

Dear Ron
If you have an XP style keyboard, hit the "Power" key and
Windows will shut down fairly quickly.

The only faster method for an orderly shutdown is to write
a little bat. Use a plain text editor and open a new file.
Save it as shutdown.bat
Make sure it is saved as that, and NOT as shutdown.bat.txt.

Then paste into it what you see between the lines:
_________________
shutdown -s -t 0

_________________

Save it again, and if you are using Windows Notpad,
again check to make sure it did not sneak .txt onto the
end of it.

Finally, make a desktop shortcut to that file and chose an
appropriate icon.

When you click on that icon, Windows will shut down fast,
but still reasonably orderly and you won't get weird
complaints from it on the next start-up.

Have FUN
Dear Webby