Double-clicking shutdown.exe will close one of my WinXP systems, but not another. How can it be enabled in the second ? Basty

Look at file permissions or might have to move to a directory that has permission to the user. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

Where would I look at File Permissions ? Basty

It is not a file permission issue. If permissions were the issue it would be the user account does not have the authority to run shutdown.exe. Here is how you get a nonadmin to use shutdown.exe http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosi...

Wanderer I had posted a reply saying that it did not work - but it is not in the thread. However, I have since discovered that if I do not merely make a shortcut of shutdown.exe, but type << shutdown.exe -s -t 0 >> into RUN, the shortcut so created works. Basty

Correction - it is not typed into RUN, but into the line that opens when you right-click the desktop to create a (new) shortcut. Basty