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SpiriteH!

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I just moved from XP32-bit to XP64-bit for my gaming rig however I'm having a bit of a problem, when I leave the machine running to do updates and download stuff at night a shutdown timer is set (save some power and all that) however it seems that there is a limit of 600 seconds on XP64, can anyone explain this to me.

Is there some security reason for this? I did notice that its also now noted in the /? info for shutdown which I'm sure it wasn't before.

" /t xxx Set time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
The valid range is 0-600, with a default of 30"


I want to keep third-party software to minimal so I'd really prefer some work around if anyone knows one... =/ Or at least information on what might be causing this (this install is also patched which the last one wasn't, could that be it?).


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if you been notified that there's updates just go to shutdown the system and you should get a option to update and shutdown the system after updates.
 

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1.) Open notepad.
2.) Type the shutdown command that you want.
3.) Save it as a .bat file instead of .txt.(DO NOT NAME IT SHUTDOWN.BAT)
4.) Go to Task Scheduler.
5.) Schedule the bat file to run at the time you want the machine to shut down at.
 

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1.) Open notepad.
2.) Type the shutdown command that you want.
3.) Save it as a .bat file instead of .txt.(DO NOT NAME IT SHUTDOWN.BAT)
4.) Go to Task Scheduler.
5.) Schedule the bat file to run at the time you want the machine to shut down at.

I like the idea as a work around tbh, bit annoying after looking into it I found out that in XP64/Vista/Win7 they changed the shutdown (and ping) commands. Not working as intended if you ask me ]=

Thanks all
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Actually, the shutdown command was never intended to work the way you were using it. It was never meant to be used as a timer to shutdown the computer after a large amount of time.

It was actually meant to be used by administrators to shut down the computers remotely. The time limit was implemented only to give a time period to warn anyone using the computer and allow time to save any work they needed to.
 
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