I tried some random parameters after the shutdown
command in PowerShell 2.0 when I stumbled upon shutdown -y
. All it seems to do is log out the user.
if any other random letter is used (that isn't a valid parameter) nothing happens. For example: shutdown -b
My question is: Does shutdown -y
do anything special?
I could not find any documentation about this.
The Windows 2000 documentation states the following:
/y: Use this switch to force a "yes" answer to all queries from the computer.
So it looks like by using -y
or /y
with no other switches you are doing the default behaviour of shutdown.exe, which is to logoff the user while also forcing any confirm prompts to be acknowledged with yes.
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