Reader Evangelist writes in with a counsel to preclude Windows from continuing a shutdown operation—very multipurpose for those nowadays you poverty to shutdown but you unexpectedly chose restart.

John’s counsel is null newborn to the more tech-savvy readers—you crapper only ingest a alter to the built-in shutdown.exe programme to actually verify the grouping to abort the shutdown. You’ll impact to create a newborn road pointing to the utility, which is ordinarily settled in your Windows folder so you’ll requirement to add the line accordingly.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -a

The -a alter tells Windows to abort the shutdown, so you’ll requirement to impact the road apace if you poverty to kibosh the shutdown in time. It’s a rattling ultimate tip, but it’s the identify of gimmick that could become in accessible low destined circumstances.Thanks, John!

If you poverty to preclude Windows from restarting because of semiautomatic updates, analyse discover previously mentioned ShutdownGuard—or you crapper see how to shutdown, restart, or rest Windows Vista from the keyboard.