To see all the options, just open a command prompt and type: shutdown /?. Now, to abort a shutdown, make sure you double click on the Shutdown shortcut when you want to shutdown your Computer. You can also use other options with the shutdown.exe command, such as restart, logoff, standby and hibernate as well as change the time delay. If you shutdown Windows any other way (using the Start menu, CTRL+ALT+DEL, etc…) you cannot abort it using this method. This will only work when clicking on the Shutdown shortcut. During this time, if you need to abort, press CTRL+ALT+A on your keyboard. Now, to abort a shutdown, make sure you double click on the Shutdown shortcut when you want to shutdown your Computer. Notice that it automatically enters ‘CTRL + ALT + A’. Now, right click on the Abort shortcut icon, select Properties, and in the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut key box (where it says None) and press ‘A’ on the keyboard. NOTE: The %SystemRoot% is a System variable for the location of Windows folder.Ĭlick Next to continue and name the shortcut Shutdown and click Finish.Ĭreate a second shortcut, except copy the following command in the ‘In the Type the location of the item’ text field: %SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 30 Then in the ‘Type the location of the item text’ field enter:
Then we’ll create a keyboard shortcut key that will be used to abort shutting down Windows.Ĭreate the first shortcut, for shutdown, by right clicking on the Desktop (shortcut must be created on your Desktop), and select New \ Shortcut. To create the first shortcut, we’ll use the shutdown.exe command that is available in XP and Vista.
To do that first, we’ll need to create two shortcuts, one for shutdown and another for abort. There is a way to abort a shutdown (or restart) in Windows using a built-in command and a keyboard shortcut.
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