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Vista RC1 shutdown notification

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The shutdown notifications need additional work in Windows Vista RC1:

  1. Run cmd.exe with administrative privileges
  2. Run the following command: shutdown /s /t 600
  3. Abort the shutdown with this command: shutdown /a

Notification of an aborted system shutdown in Beta 2 had a strange title: “You are about to be logged off. The scheduled shutdown has been cancelled.”

Luckily, Microsoft has enhanced the title in RC1, but there is still room for improvement: “Logoff is cancelled. The scheduled shutdown has been cancelled.”

In the final version of Vista, the shutdown notification is back to a non-closeable window and the aborted shutdown notification uses the same confusing phrasing — the title says “logoff is canceled” while the details say the “shutdown was canceled.”

George Tsiokos
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In the final version of Vista, the shutdown notification is back to a non-closeable window & the aborted shutdown notification is the same as above. It’s a little confusing since the title says “logoff is canceled” while the details say the “shutdown was canceled”.

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