I would like to run a bat file whenever the shut down button is click.

Is this possible?

Yes, but you have to setup your own shutdown button by a new shortcut, maybe placed on the desktop.

If interested how-to follows...

Hmm... what i mean is this:

I have schedule a backup on every tuesday and friday nite to the company server.

I wanted to do it around midnight because I have many files and may take hours and don't want to affect the others speed for accessing the server.

The thing is that sometimes I forgotten about the backup and I shut down the pc before I left.

So what I wanted to do is:

Once I click the start -> turn off computer, it will appear a message:

" Hey, you have a backup session later, are you sure you want to shut down?"

Y for yes, N for no

That's it.

Any suggestion?

As I said, you can do that in a straightforward way by setting up your own shutdown shortcut (with the red button icon) on the desktop and click that to power off the computer. Then it's just matter of routine to change your way of life (on the other side you do not hit the power off key on the keyboard to shutdown).

Any way to set up what stated

- create the following batch

:: shut.bat
@echo off
color 1E
:LOOP
cls
echo.
echo.-- Hey, you have a backup session later --
echo.
echo.-- are you sure you want to shut down ? --
echo.
set /P Q=Enter Y/N^>
if /I "%Q%"=="Y" shutdown -s
if /I not "%Q%"=="N" goto :LOOP
:: end_of_batch

- save shut.bat in e.g. C:\
- create a shortcut on the desktop to C:\shut.bat and right clicking select Properties where you can name it SHUTDOWN and select the red button icon (sheet Link/change icon)

you are done.

Other fancy ways require more sophisticated methods beyond my know-how.

Hey that is cool. I tried your bat file, but it didn't shut down when I enter Y ?

Glad you appreciate it, but what do you get entering Y/y and then pressing the ENTER key?

Let me know as I tested the script and it worked fine on my Win XP SP2 system.

Any way get the following improved version of the shut.bat (a bit more fancy)

:: shut.bat
@echo off
color 4E
:LOOP
cls
echo.
echo. ## Hey, you have a backup session later ##
echo.
echo. ## are you sure you want to shut down ? ##
echo.
Set Q=
set /P Q= ###### Enter Y/N then hit ENTER^>
if /I "%Q%"=="Y" shutdown -s -f
if /I not "%Q%"=="N" goto :LOOP
Set Q=
color 0E
exit
:: end_of_batch

Hmm... Nothing happens when I enter the Y

Replace the following statement

if /I "%Q%"=="Y" shutdown -s -f

with

if /I "%Q%"=="Y" %SystemRoot%\system32\shutdown -s -f

This should fix the bug, otherwise add <& PAUSE> (without the brackets <>) at the end of the line and please report the message displayed. There is no reason the script doesn't work as planned.