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Shutdown computer using a batch file. Here are the steps to shut down a computer using a batch file. Open a notepad and click on new file; Paste the shutdown code stated above and save the file as turnoff.bat Once you have saved the file, click on the.bat file and your computer will start shutting down. Essentially, you tell the tool what files you want to add to your package and which files to execute when the EXE file is executed—in this case, this will be your BAT file. There are quite a few settings you can configure, such as whether the file extraction is visible to the user. Note that not all batch commands will work.

You may need to run a batch file to configure devices, delete or copy files, or perform other tasks each time the computer loads to help it run more efficiently or allow a device to run. Below are steps on how to make any batch file run each time you boot into Windows.

If there are two or more user accounts on the computer, the batch file runs after the user logs in to Windows.

Run a batch file at loading of Windows 8 and 10

1. Create a shortcut to the batch file.

2. Once the shortcut is created, right-click the shortcut file and select Cut.
3. Press Start, type Run, and press Enter.
4. In the Run window, type shell:startup to open the Startup folder.
5. Once the Startup folder is opened, click the Home tab at the top of the folder. Then, select Paste to paste the shortcut file into the Startup folder.

Run a batch file at loading of Windows 98, XP, NT, 2000, Vista, and 7

1. Create a shortcut to the batch file.

2. Once the shortcut is created, right-click the shortcut file and select Cut.
3. Click Start, then Programs or All Programs. Find the Startup folder and right-click that folder, then select Open.
4. Once the Startup folder is opened, click Edit in the menu bar, then Paste to paste the shortcut file into the Startup folder. If you do not see the menu bar, press the Alt to make the menu bar visible.

Any shortcuts in the Startup folder automatically run each time the user logs in to Windows.

Run a batch file at loading of Windows 95, 3.x, and MS-DOS

Batch File Example

The autoexec.bat file is in the root directory of the C: drive (C:autoexec.bat). Place a line in your autoexec.bat that calls the batch file each time you want to boot the computer, as shown below.

In the example above, each time your computer starts and processes the autoexec.bat file, it runs the batch file myfile.bat.

The autoexec.bat is only available with early versions of Windows and is not available or used in any version of Windows after Windows XP.

Additional information

• See our batch file and startup folder for further information and related links.

In this article, you will learn about different commands and ways to shut down, reboot, and log off the PC. You will learn about batch file shutdown commands in detail.

How to shutdown computer using cmd/batch file?

The command used to shut down computer is

Shut down computer using cmd

Follow these steps to shut down the computer using cmd.

• Run the command prompt
• Type the above command and hit enter

  The computer will shut down immediately after hitting this command.

Shutdown computer using a batch file

Here are the steps to shut down a computer using a batch file.

• Open a notepad and click on new file
• Paste the shutdown code stated above and save the file as turn_off.bat
• Once you have saved the file, click on the .bat file and your computer will start shutting down.

Alternately the following code can be used for immediate shutdown.

How to shutdown the computer by setting time using cmd/batch?

Turn Batch File Into Service

The code we stated above is used to shut down the computer immediately after hitting the code. We have to use the following command to set the timing for shutting down.

For example, the following code is used to shut down a computer in 60 seconds.

How to log off a computer using batch/cmd?

Logging off means signing out of from the current logged in account. Here is the code to log off or sign out.

where l signifies shortcut command for logging off.

How to hibernate a computer using batch/cmd?

Hibernating is same as shutting down but when you hibernate your computer, it stores and remembers the previous state of the computer before hibernating and it will resume from there.

Here is the code to hibernate a computer.

How to reboot a computer using batch/cmd?

Here is the code required to reboot a computer, be it from command prompt or batch file.

Here is the code to reboot a computer.

This is the code to reboot the computer in 10 seconds.

Batch file program to shutdown, reboot, hibernate, and logoff the computer

Let’s take an example where the user will be asked to enter an option whether to logoff or reboot or hibernate or to shutdown the computer.

Here is the source code.

Save this as .bat file and double click on it to run. The output console will be like the following.

Now depending on the option you choose the computer will be either shut down, logoff, hibernate or reboot.