Or a not so forceful solution: Go into the Ctrl + Alt + Del menu, and press the power button while holding down Ctrl. Now you can do an emergency shutdown.

[–] mellejwz@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Windows + r, shutdown -s -t 0, enter

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I use "shutdown -s -f -t 0" it forces all apps to shutdown without windows asking you if you want to go back and save or if a program is not turning off.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

even the shutdown command is complicated ffs

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Be happy the shutdown procedure doesn't start by opening regedit. I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I read that as rageedit.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 7 points 7 months ago

Not really

The -s stands for shutdown, with other ones being for hibernate, reboot etc.

The -t stands for time. By default it's something like 30 seconds. Putting it on 0 makes it instant.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It only takes two parameters to shutdown, how is that complicated?

[–] mellejwz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Not really, it's a pretty simple command that not everyone uses anyway. -s is for shutdown, -t for time. There are more complicated things in the Windows command line interface.

[–] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it would still update (if it didn't give a normal shutdown option)

[–] mellejwz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Nope, I use it all the time if I'm going home from work. Works like a charm.

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