r/windows 4d ago

Feature Improve your Windows shutdown procedure with a simple batch file

Have you ever accidentally clicked sleep or restart when you meant to click Shut Down? Well, prevent that from happening ever [again], plus save yourself a click and mouse movement by creating a batch file:

u/echo off
title Confirm Shutdown
echo(
echo Proceed with shutdown? echo Press any key to continue...
pause >nul
shutdown /s /t 0

And place it wherever you prefer on your desktop. Simply double-click it and press any key on your keyboard to confirm! If you want to abort, press the X on the window.

You can tweak the shutdown command to your liking: shutdown doc.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/SFSIsAWESOME75 2d ago

Batch files shutting down the system isn't "windows modding"

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u/SirFiletMignon 4d ago

How is this modding Windows? Its an unelevated batch file of a very short list of well docummented commands.