How to make a shutdown protocol

[DouggyO.o]

How to make a shutdown protocol

I was bored today and i came across a unique way to piss people off

First right click your desktop and click new and then Shortcut. This box should appear
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Now next you type in the bar, shutdown -s -t 100 -c "(insert custom message" Looks like this
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Now you want to hide the name of the Program so for me I put Portable Online Disc Drive. Put what you want, should look like this.
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When you do that on your desktop you should see the thing you made. The icon is messed up so you need to add one. Im using a Driver icon since mines a "portable d drive". Pick what you want. To do this Right click the Shortcut and click properties. Then click Change Icon. This box should appear.
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So just choose one of the icons and click apply. Now it should change. Now you can double click and you will get a message saying " Windows will shut down in 2 minutes" It will also have your message. Now this is how you turn it off. Click RUN > And then type in shutdown -a. The -a is for abort.
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Enjoy. the Shutdown -a is the ONLY WAY To turn it off. YOu cant Ctrl Alt Delete it. YOu cannot right click it either. That is the ONLY WAY..


i found this quite amusing and i figured somebody here might like it to =)

*note i did not write this i found it on another website*

I also tested this on my own computer. it works great =)

[iJack]

thats awsome, im gonna do it on my dads computer, bu it will say "DO NOT CLICK THIS", he is going to click, unfortunately, he is a wiz at computers, he will stop it.

[Mzor203]

YOU'RE MY FRICKIN HERO!!!!!!!!! Lol! I can't wait to try it out.

[DouggyO.o]

lol. i know a much more effective one. it shuts down the computer completely and the entire hard drives data is wiped clean and the only way to get onto windows is to reinstall it via the disk haha...but that could be considered illegal

[iJack]

lol. i know a much more effective one. it shuts down the computer completely and the entire hard drives data is wiped clean and the only way to get onto windows is to reinstall it via the disk haha...but that could be considered illegal

That gives me ideas, DANG YOU! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?

[Mzor203]

lol. i know a much more effective one. it shuts down the computer completely and the entire hard drives data is wiped clean and the only way to get onto windows is to reinstall it via the disk haha...but that could be considered illegal

That doesn't sound good... remind me never to let you onto my comp. lol.

[DouggyO.o]

=D got any questions MSN me ;-)

[Techno Monster]

omg make it and name it PORNO FOLDER hahahahaha see which pervs click on that

[Blahages]

I used to take advantage of this about 5 years ago in School, across the network. I'd shutdown remote workstations in the computer classroom, or send them messages across the LAN via the Messenger Service.

My current favorite thing that does similar things to this, but also pretty much anything else that is fathomable, is AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/). It's a program that allows you to program it to do basically any function that you can do yourself on a computer, but in less time, and automated. You can also use a script recorder it comes with to record the process you want it to duplicate.

Examples of what you could use it for:
Letting it run in the background, hidden, waiting for a certain program (Such as Firefox, or IE) to open, then close it automatically every time, in loop, or just once.
Imitate Mouse Movements, and Commands. You can make it click certain things, certain spots of the screen at certain times, or under certain conditions.
You can make it copy or delete files or registry entries
Basically, any function that you would do on a computer, you can make it doI've used it in Login Scripts on Computers to fix things, such as install fonts, delete a file, copy a file to the computer, execute a program under certain conditions, change the view of a program for the user automatically, display message boxes to the user, continuously vote in an online poll that I wanted to skew the results for my favorite to win (It ran in a loop, voting every like eighth of a second :P), etc.

A friend of mine used it to automate a process he had to do for work. They wanted him to take data from a large spreadsheet and enter it into their new online data system. He used it to copy certain cells and information into certain preset fields on the website, and save the information, then move onto the next one, and he programmed a hotkey so he could end the script if needed, and sat back and watched the program automate it all for him, and if he saw it make a mistake, he'd pause it, fix the problem, and continue on.

He also used it for fun on me once to open up the Windows Search Dialog, and Search for all EXE files on my HDD, and Execute them all at once.

I may have done similar things to him as well, but meh.

Either way, much more fun tool. The help file is ridiculously extensive, and will answer pretty much any question you have about how to do something, and if it doesn't, there is a forum for it that'll answer pretty much anything else.

Obviously, I'm advocating the use of this in a responsible way, as it is a very good tool to use for a wide variety of things.

It'll require a little patience, and the willingness to learn how to use it. It IS a programming language, but it's not that difficult, and it has a recorder to record a lot of things you do, and make the base of the script itself, you just need to modify timings, and other things.

Word of advice, though, for anyone who chooses to learn how to use it:

If you loop a script (Make it run continuously over and over again, for whatever reason) MAKE SURE to include a Hotkey that you can press to exit the program if needed, or you may NOT be able to get control of your computer again to stop it, and may have to reboot. To add the hotkey, put the following on a line by itself at the very bottom of the script:

F12::ExitApp

You can change F12 to Like, F1, F2, etc, or whatever other button you want. The above means that if you press F12 on your keyboard, it'll stop the script.

To loop a script, you would use the bolded in the following basic example script. Open Notepad, and paste it in there, and save it as like "Blah.AHK." It has to have the .ahk extension, but other than that, it doesn't matter what you call it.


Loop
{
Run, C:\Windows\Notepad.exe
Sleep, 1000
WinWait, Untitled - Notepad,
IfWinNotActive, Untitled - Notepad, , WinActivate, Untitled - Notepad,
WinWaitActive, Untitled - Notepad,
Send, Randomness
Sleep 4000
Send, {ALTDOWN}{ALTUP}
Sleep 100
Send, f
Sleep 100
Send, x
Sleep 100
Send, n
Sleep 200
}
F7::ExitApp
That will open Notepad, then Wait 1 second, then make sure that Notepad is actually open, and if it is, it'll type "Randomness" into notepad, then wait 4 seconds, and then exit notepad, without saving the file, by hitting ALT+F+X, and hitting No for Saving the File. It will then Loop Continously and keep Opening Notepad, writing that, and closing, over and over again, unless you press the F7 Key.

The bolded part represents what you put in to loop the script. The Loop { Goes at the beginning, with Loop one one line, and { on the second, by itself, then the } at the end, on its own line, right above the Hotkey, if you use one. It will loop whatever is within those brackets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey

http://www.autohotkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Some people may find this interesting, and useful. If so, have fun. If not, ignore me. :P

[Mzor203]

Thanks for that info Blahages. I might actually put it to use one day.